{"id":1845762,"date":"2023-02-14T03:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845762"},"modified":"2023-02-14T03:04:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T08:04:49","slug":"after-ranked-choice-voting-rigged-their-elections-alaska-conservatives-fight-to-reclaim-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-ranked-choice-voting-rigged-their-elections-alaska-conservatives-fight-to-reclaim-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"After Ranked-Choice Voting Rigged Their Elections, Alaska Conservatives Fight To Reclaim Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-ranked-choice-voting-rigged-their-elections-alaska-conservatives-fight-to-reclaim-democracy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845762&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>In the lead-up to the 2020 election, out-of-state dark money poured into Alaska to hijack the state\u2019s elections by tricking voters into implementing a ranked-choice voting system. Following a midterm election fraught, the state is now in a mess.<a href=\"https:\/\/alaskawatchman.com\/2022\/12\/09\/alaskas-ranked-choice-election-marred-by-record-low-turnout-mass-confusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Record-low turnout<\/a> and confused voters, Alaska\u2019s conservatives are fighting to take back control of their state\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>It is also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskansforhonestelections.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alaskans for Honest Elections<\/a>, the grassroots organization is leading a statewide signature-collecting effort to put an initiative on the 2024 ballot to repeal Alaska\u2019s ranked-choice voting (RCV) system, which voters <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Alaska_Ballot_Measure_2,_Top-Four_Ranked-Choice_Voting_and_Campaign_Finance_Laws_Initiative_(2020)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It was only narrowly accepted<\/a> 2020 Last month, Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elections.alaska.gov\/petitions\/22AKHE\/22AKHE%20Ballot%20Measure%20Application%20Review%20AG%20Opinion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Certified<\/a> the group\u2019s application for a petition to repeal RCV, meaning the organization may now begin collecting signatures from voters across the state. The group must be notified. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=287118&#038;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nearly 27,000 valid signatures<\/a> In order to have the initiative appear on the ballot in the 2024 contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve put together over 5,000 volunteers who will be gathering [signatures] all over the state,\u201d Art Mathias, who\u2019s helping spearhead the signature drive, told The Federalist. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be at several outdoor shows, boating shows.\u201d Volunteers are available to help. \u201cgo to their friends, to their churches, to the shopping malls. Wherever people come through, [they\u2019ll] collect signatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RCV, as critics call it \u201crigged-choice voting,\u201d Voters rank candidates according to their preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes in the first round of voting, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and his votes are reallocated to the voter\u2019s second-choice candidate. The process continues until one candidate is elected to the majority.<\/p>\n<p>RCV has the potential to pose a problem in terms of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/11\/ranked-choice-voting-keeps-rigging-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ballot exhaustion<\/a>This is when a ballot has been cast. \u201cbut does not count toward the end election result.\u201d This happens when voters fail rank all of the candidates on their ballots, which can lead to disenfranchisement (as some). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0261379414001395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">studies<\/a> Have shown.<\/p>\n<p>While the 2020 RCV initiative, known as Ballot Measure 2, was sold to Alaskans as an effort to keep outside dark money from influencing the state\u2019s elections, it was out-of-state funding that helped push the initiative over the finish line. According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/25\/out-state-billionaires-funding-ranked-choice-voting-campaign-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">October 2020 report<\/a> Breitbart News reports that Yes on 2 for Better Elections (a pro-RCV group) raised more money from outside Alaska ($6,194,081), than it did from within Alaska ($20,000).<\/p>\n<p>RCV \u201cbecomes an invitation for exceeding amounts of dark money to come in and put forth a candidate that nobody knows,\u201d Mathias said. \u201cAlaskans are tired of being manipulated by rich people from outside [the state who] think they can tell us what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Mary Peltola was elected to the 2022 midterms. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/sarah-palin-should-blame-lisa-murkowski-for-her-special-election-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Defeated<\/a> former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in the race for Alaska\u2019s at-large congressional district as a result of ranked-choice voting. The RCV system also made a difference in the state\u2019s Senate race, where incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski fended off a challenge from Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka. As The Federalist\u2019s Tristan Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-scheme-was-a-plot-to-save-murkowski-but-it-also-doomed-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, Murkowski\u2019s allies were heavily involved in the push for Alaska to adopt RCV as a way to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Alaskans are tired of being manipulated by rich people from outside [the state who] think they can tell us what to do,&#8217; said Art Mathias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1845765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8320,4539,5521,6571,4004,9983,13392,12965,4351],"class_list":["post-1845762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-alaska","tag-conservatives","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-fight","tag-ranked-choice","tag-reclaim","tag-rigged","tag-voting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}