The Alaska Republican Party, during its quarterly meeting that took place in Fairbanks on Saturday, passed a resolution that recommends Alaskans vote “Yes” on Ballot Measure 2, which would restore the voting procedures that were in place before voters approved ranked-choice voting methods in 2020.
Alaska has been part of a push by Outside dark money coming from groups like UniteUs.org and FairVote.org to get ranked-choice voting in place in every state. These groups understand the Republican voters, many of whom are not inclined to rank candidates. Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters who will do so.
The ballot measure that Alaskans will be voting on in November came about through a citizens’ petition drive that was able to get over 36,000 signatures from Alaska voters who want the ranked-choice voting system to go away.
Alaska Ballot Measure 2, Repeal Top-Four Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative:
A “yes” vote supports eliminating the top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting general elections in Alaska, which were adopted in 2020, and establishing a party primary system.
A “no” vote opposes eliminating the top-four primaries and ranked-choice voting general elections in Alaska, which were adopted in 2020.
With the open primary established by voters in a dark-money initiative 2020, voters who are registered with parties no longer have the ability to choose who their party’s candidate is to advance to the general election.
This year, only the second time ranked-choice voting has been used in Alaska, the Democrats have a felon on the general election ballot for the congressional seat. That felon may handcuff the party’s ability to get Mary Peltola reelected.
In fact, while the Alaska Democratic Party has thrown its full support behind ranked-choice voting, it also now says that it is being harmed by the system.
Democrats sued the Division of Elections because the division director correctly placed felon Eric Hafner on the final-four November ballot for Congress. The November ballot will allow voters to rank Hafner along with the others — Peltola, Nick Begich, and John W. Howe.
The Democrats lost their case in Superior Court, so appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court, where they were crushed by the court’s decision to uphold the Division of Elections’ decision.
The Alaska Republican Party is the political home for 143,000 registered voters in Alaska who, before 2022, were able to choose someone who best represented their values in a primary system that allowed Republicans or any voter not signed up with another political party to vote the Republican primary ballot.
Since the Democrats successfully destroyed the party primary and made it a jungle or “garbage” primary, August’s primary voter turnout was the third-lowest in 50 years. Democrat promoters of ranked-choice voting are minimizing that turnout by saying it was a boring election.
But the “boring election” for Democrats turned into an electrifying election quickly, as the party of slavery defenders fought and lost in court to have the results of the election overturned by judges, in order to favor Peltola.
The Democrat Party leaders want to have their cake and eat it too, as demonstrated by their willingness to game the election system, not just this year through costly court appeals, but even in 2022, when ranked-choice voting first started.
Al Gross, who had been the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in 2020 under the regular voting system, filed as an independent candidate for Congress in 2022, and he had the support of the Democrats.
But then Gross finished ahead of Mary Peltola in the special election, and so Democrats forced him out so they could support Peltola, who is a registered Democrat. He was third and she was fourth, but it was Al Gross who was strong-armed out by the party, because even though the party had supported Gross, it had an actual registered Democrat in Peltola.
The Democrat Party was playing games with ranked-choice voting in 2022 by forcing Gross to drop, and then two years later, the Democrats sued over the results of the primary because they once again want to game the election system.
The Alaska Republican Party has said the ranked-choice voting system in Alaska makes the state the laughingstock of the nation because the system allows Democrats to do what they do repeatedly: Strong-arm candidates and file lawsuits if they don’t get their way.
I can’t believe Alaskans were dumb enough to vote for RCV.
In the last election who knows who voted for what ?? And if any of our votes even got counted. I don’t have much trust in our current election system. It’s pretty similar to Venezuelas .
I wasnt surprised. Alaskans fell for the COVID hoax by a factor of 8 out of 10. Look at all the people who wore masks, took shots, coward down…Very few didnt fall for it.
and some still wear the masks…..I thought Biden fixed that? LOL
Those that still wear masks are completely mentally ill. They will never be normal. But the worst ones were the people who knew it was a hoax or suspected it was and went along with it anyway. Those people are the worst scum on this planet. They enabled it. I can say this because I never wore a mask one time. Not even when I went to Anchorage to have photos taken for my CCW renewal. Not when I went to stores post office etc.
One day people will understand what they did. The people who wore masks destroyed the children and one day those children are going to be ruthless when our generation is in retirement and they are “taking care of us.” There will be an epidemic of elder abuse in the future. And Im here to say…THEY WILL BE 100% JUSTIFIED because of what was done to them.
Many of us refused to wear face diapers but had little choice if a non-elective surgery was necessary. In this case I purchased a see through mask made out of sheer fabric that allowed me to breathe and to get hospital access. I never had any staff hassle me about it.
I feel the same way brother. I was mocked called a troglodyte and numerous other names by people who trusted “ the science”. I knew about two weeks into hype that Covid was bs. Amazing how so few have heard about the great barrington declaration
How do you know they did?
.
You were only told they did.
.
Big difference, no?
“Ranked-choice voting favors the more malleable Democrat voters who will do so.”
Replace that with “Ranked-choice voting favors the more gullible Democrat voters who will do so.” and you’ll be right-on.
The legislature should of done this two years ago…….
Yes
Abolish RCV if you want, but please don’t pull those hideous party primaries out of the trash can, dust them off, and attempt to use them again.
Through all of this, Governor Dunleavy remains silent. 🤔 Here my 2 cents: VOTE YES on 2! 🇺🇸
Dunleavy remains silent because he wanted RCV. Why else would he allow over 800,000 ballots to be printed in 2020 when Alaska has a total population of 738,000? 1/3 of which are children who are too young to vote.
As a conservative I can look at Dunleavy and say he is clearly a RINO. Having live in Alaska since 1978 I can also say he has been our worst governor ever. And that includes Walker. Having grown up in Valdez and living there for 40 years I knew Walker personally. And I warned those outside of Valdez what he would do. I was correct. But Dunleavy has been 1000 times worse.
The lieutenant governor is in charge of elections not the governor so Dunleavy is not the one who had 800,000 ballots made
The buck stops with the Governor. Dunleavy endorsed Dahlstrom, which clearly indicates he supports her corrupt and incompetent piblic performance. It’s difficult to identify a more repulsive individual than Dahlstrom, let alone vote for her other than to simply leave.
Who cares? This has zero force in law. It’s just words in an echo chamber. Ballot measure 2 won’t pass and kill this grift. And Republicans who happen to win in November will spend more time fighting about who wants to caucus with the democrats when then get to Juneau than do anything about this.
Gee, how brave…the GOP should be demanding a forensic audit of 2020’s proposition 2 vote….and as Willy points out, the legislature could have done this….remember that when you watch them all get back into office and this repeal barely doesn’t happen again by oh, I don’t know, 1% or so…
There is a television commercial airing now that encourages voters to keep RCV and vote NO in November. These commercials incorrectly state that Alaska military members and veterans, who do not affiliate themselves with a political party, will be forced to choose one or the other party if they want to vote here. This is completely incorrect!
And, also, too: The small print at the end of the commercial shows Liesel McGuire as leading this inaccurate and problematic VOTE NO effort. What happened to her? Even with ALL of her problems, I thought she was a Republican.
There are RINO Republicans pushing to keep RCV. Sumner from the Mat-Su Valley has dropped out of the race so that he can focus on pushing to keep RCV. Dark money is paying for the innumberable advertisement spots to keep RCV. It is sickening to hear the lies being told over and over and over.
Why now and not years ago?
The RNC is just a worthless organization who can’t do anything right and they wonder why they keep loosing elections.
I had completely forgotten about Al Gross. Thanks…….
Ak GOP must have new leadership ? They could not have screwed up the RCV vote any worse than the last go around . They failed miserably in my mind . No better than the democrats !
Should have been a media blitz about how to vote in the last election ? Makes you wonder what their alliances were , I still question it . Lame brain organization .
Instead the news was about two of their candidates dividing the vote . They should have had a coin toss in a very public place to figure out who’s on ballot .
The money pouring in from outside dark sources should offend any Alaskan . Then these stooges from labor supporting MP is absurd . Her platform wants to take our guns , take our gas stoves and do away with fossil fuels . No mention of it from the Republican Party in ads ? This would have an effect on every single Alaskan’s way of life . It would make village life unlivable .
Please send MP to her new consulting job in the DC swamp with the other creatures that only come out a night !
The “dark” money spent to influence Alaska voters pales in comparison to the dark money spent to purchase Murkowski, Sullivan, Peltola and will purchase Begich if he makes it past RCV. These “elected” stooges’ votes actually are meaningful to the interests who own our permanent government.
Glad the clowns finally caught up with the rest of intelligent people. Let’s see if they stop liberal Democrats from running as Republicans now.
Ranked choice voting violates the constitution, I don’t care what the liberal courts say. Only an idiot would claim people ranking candidates are only voting once. It is no different than voting 4 times, and having those votes counted four times.
Have you read the Alaska state’s Division of Elections page on Ranked Choice Voting? Our Division of Elections even pushes the narrative that ranking multiple people is a benefit. There are idiots running our state.
READERS! Please take a few minutes and look through the Division of Election’s page on RCV. We need to be confronting Dahlstrom on why she is allowing RCV to continue and WHY the DOE’s page is supporting RCV?
‘https://www.elections.alaska.gov/election-information/#RankedChoice
I’ll be voting “yes” on 2. I hate Top Four more than I like RCV.
I’m a veteran, the no on 2 supporters are saying veterans right are being abused with the attempted removal of rank choice voting. No one asked my opinion and cannot use my feelings in a commercial for a position which I do not support.