Former President Donald Trump said ranked choice voting in Alaska is rigged. That’s wrong. Ranked choice voting is a legal way to elect officials. Maine uses it, as do a wide variety of jurisdictions nationally including New York City.
Trump has perpetuated dangerous falsehoods for years that elections are"rigged." Now he says the use of ranked choice voting in Alaska is another part of rigged elections.
Trump also said Murkowski"put" in ranked choice voting. That’s wrong, too — the voters put in ranked choice voting through a 2020We emailed a Trump spokesperson to ask for his evidence and received no reply.In Alaska’s U.S. Senate primary Aug. 16, voters will each choose one candidate among more than one dozen. The top four vote-getters, no matter their party, will advance to the November election. Tshibaka and Murkowski are both expected to advance.
Of the 522 single-winner ranked choice voting races since 2004, the candidate with the most first-choice support has won 502 times, orof the time, according to FairVote, an organization that supports ranked choice voting. Eighteen of those"come-from-behind" winners were in second place while two were in third place.
"Alaska has a long history of clean and professionally run elections and there’s no reason to suspect that’s changing now," Wright said.The Civics Secures Democracy Act “would allow the Biden administration to buy off states with $6 billion” if they adopt critical race theory.Election administration in Alaska is handled through the state Division of Elections, which sits inside Republican Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer’s office.
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