The Division of Elections counted another 17,000 ballots on Friday, and while overall results did not change, there are three races to watch today, as more ballots get counted:
Congressional race: The lead Nick Begich has over Rep. Mary Peltola has shrunk slightly to 9,175. Begich has gone from 49.66% of the vote to 48.88%. There have been 312,070 votes counted in this race. Begich has 152,545 and Peltola has 143,370.
Ballot Measure 2: The repeal of the ranked-choice voting scheme now in place in Alaska tightened to a 1,676-vote advantage for the repeal. There have been 304,154 votes counted in this race. Yes to repeal is 152,915, while No is at 151,239. 50.28 to 49.72, less than a .56% difference.
This is nearly a mirror image of the ballot measure in 2020 that installed ranked-choice voting. That year, voters approved the scheme by 50.55% of the vote, while this year, the repeal of ranked-choice is winning by that margin.
District 18 Alaska House: The lead that Democrat Cliff Groh has over Republican challenger David Nelson has shrunk to 10 votes. There have been 3,419 votes counted. Groh has 1,713 and Nelson has 1,703; there were three write-in votes.
Other races: In this recent count, the curtain has come down on Rep. David Eastman, with Jubilee Underwood, who has 50.64% of the vote to 48.05%. There are not enough ballots outstanding in District 27 to change the results.
More ballots will be counted today — as many as 6,000. A minuscule number of military overseas ballots will come until Nov. 20, when the division will run its final calculations plus the ranking process. Districts 28, 36, 38, and 40, as well as District 6 and Senate Districts D, F, and L will have to be decided by the ranked-choice algorithm.
So those senate and house districts that are to be decide by the Ranked-Not a Choice algorithm will be decided by those who actually have the impacts of TWO votes! Whatever happened to “one person, one vote”?
David is the same thing that I’ve been asking lately is this illegal you get more than one vote? And if you think about it with your Democrat or Republican or independent, you lose your vote because the system takes it over and puts it where they want it not you. I wonder how legal this is.
Or in another scenario, why can’t I choose to “rank” one candidate as 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th? My vote should be my choice. But by throwing out the remaining 3 rankings, the D.O.E. truly has commandeered my vote.
It is too bad that some people spent more time and money attacking one conservative and not enough time on all of the issues.
As with the PFD, the Masters will decide what is best for us. I mean really, only about 30% of us can even read. Math? Fuggettabout it.
Has no one noticed yet that all of these “elections” are 50/50….almost like they are meant to support the myth that we are a divided people. It’s not just the US, they did the exact same thing in Brazil. The common factor is the machines and yet we all keep letting them do this.
Statistically, to take a diverse nation or state, like we have in the USA, and have all these elections be within a percentage point or two is impossible.
Really makes one wonder….
You are right, I’ve made that same comment on here many times. Makes it that much easier to cheat when every race is a “nail biter”. How did Michigan and Arizona go for Trump, yet they somehow have the Wicked Witches of the Midwest and Southwest, respectively?
Not just the hijinks with the machines, that could easily steal this election. The “overseas votes” include not just the military, but any U.S. citizen claiming to be a resident of Alaska but currently living abroad. There is zero verification process or oversight.
No need to miraculously find a huge box of overlooked ballots, that can be scrutinized closely. Just beef up the “overseas votes.” I certainly hope that I am wrong, here, but I have seen this scenario play out in other elections.
The last minute, totally unexpected , large volume of overseas votes overcame the lead of the projected winner. Usually the new winner was (no surprise) a Democrat.
I just hope that we don’t see this playbook at work in this current election.
There will be boxes of lost votes that suddenly get recovered and the “every vote counts” chant will begin. Funny how all these last to be counted votes always are in the Democrats’ favor.
So true
How cavalier
While the drama on RCV continues, and the counting is controlled by liberal Juneau, one can anticipate “Surprises”.
No matter, the ability to bullet vote candidates defies the object of RCV.
Explain me wrong.
Someone asked the question the other day, what if nobody ranked and no one got above the 50%+ threshold? It’s a theoretical question but not an impossible scenario. Hmmm….
The longer you count, the more Democrat/liberal votes mysteriously appear.
Isn’t that the normal “modus operandi?”
The military overseas ballots might just carry the election for Nelson.
They are going to continue counting till they can defeat ballot measure 2. It’s the only way Dahlstrom will ever win the governor’s race.
SD is that the final 6000 ballots or they going to find 20000 more in the backseat of Taxi in Anchorage??
I’m keeping an open mind on that, JW. -sd
This is my surprised face: 😐
Our Division of Elections office needs a serious overhaul. It should never take this long to count votes and I don’t recall when elections has ever taken this long before. According to Dr. Douglas Frank, Alaska has the dirtiest voter rolls in the US. Dr. Frank’s attempts to reach out to Lt Gov Dahlstrom have been ignored. I have also sent letters to her and Gov. Dunleavy about this. Dr. Frank is a physicist and mathematician from Ohio who discovered the algorithm used by apparent election hackers based on the 2010 U.S. Census. He is an advocate of hand counts vs machines. We must make our elections trustworthy again!
We will continue to count votes as long as it takes to get the results we want.
RCV encouraged the virtue signalers to vote first for their idealized choice, and then a second time for a more likely candidate. What a farce! Here’s hoping we’re finally done with that crap. Too bad we have to wait four more years to get rid of Lisa.
Suzanne, what’s the latest count on House District 6?
Vance 4,838, Johnson 4,449, Slaughter 930. Write-in 22.
I am just waiting for two extra-large boxes of ballots to be magically “found” in the trunk of a car and a special file cabinet at the Division of Elections. It has happened before in Alaska. Under Alaska’s perverse legal system there is a presumption that such ballots should be counted so as not to “disenfranchise” anyone – although the identity of those anyones cannot be determined. The Democrats in Pennsylvania are using this same logic right now in an attempt to steal a senate race from the Republicans.
More ballots coming in by snowmaching or dog team. District 36 is a hot freaken mess and needs “reigned in” big time. Approximately 40 precincts in District 36, who is actually policing all of them?? No one!!! What a giant crock of 💩🤯! This is where they make up any democratic votes needed. Imagine that, oh darn we are 876 votes short for Candidate Joe Blow, call to outlying villages… send in the democratic votes only! Boom- one and done!
Every other state has long ago decided who their winners are. And here in Alaska, with the least population, we are already three weeks after the election and still counting? WTF?
Guess when the counting will cease ….
What an embarrassment.
We are going on almost two weeks and still don’t have results from our election.
This is a serious issue and needs to be addressed and solved – so we retain faith that our elections are based on integrity.
Ah, the old “ Oh look, we found a lost box of ballots, and they’re all for our guy” schtick. Remember Norm Coleman and Weird Al Franken, Minnesota Senate 2008? These criminals will never stop until they are dealt with in a serious legal manner.
If only we had a republican party worth a damn.
Just checked the DOE website and YES on BM2 is now only 895 votes ahead of the NO on 2. 🤢 I find this very difficult to believe.
The morale will continue until the beatings improve
The more they count, the more obvious it becomes that the fix was in for retaining RCV!