Republicans Just Lost the Alaska House Seat

[Clipper]

From that article in the OP:


So, realistically, this is a very shallow win for the Dem candidate. Good to November’s actual election.

Oh, and maybe some Republican solidarity via the abysmal ranked choice voting crap will help in the real election.

Maybe by then you righties will quit

 

[0311]

Both the Republican Senator who followed her conscience and voted to impeach Trump after he lost the 2020 election (and yet tried to remain in power), and Democratic Congresswoman candidate Mary Peltola won the final round of voting — and their vote totals showed they both got absolute majorities, and won especially among independent voters.

There are a huge number of independents in Alaska and libertarian types who don’t accept the anti-abortion statism and general lunacy of Trump election deniers. They also demanded and won electoral change from the b.s. self-interested two-party status quo system. They of course had earlier voted for “Ranked Choice Voting,” an important reform that should be adopted everywhere.

A huge victory against Palin and all the other Trump Republican lunatics!

Alaska's Murkowski, Peltola win reelection in latest Trump rebuke

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Democratic Representative Mary Peltola of Alaska both won reelection against opponents backed by Donald Trump on Wednesday, the latest high-profile defeats of candidates supported by the former president.

www.reuters.com

And Caribou Barbi bites the dust. She is a horrible individual, she believed that the voters in Alaska would forgive for quitting her job as Governor. The one thing I can never forgive McCain for was putting on his ticket, Palin should have stayed a small town mayor.

 

[struth]

Every single state using ranked choice voting held their election and they were absolute disasters. Here we are getting results for an election 2 and a half weeks after election day. Why on God's green earth would you think that is a good thing?

People that want to undercut faith in the democratic process think that’s a good thing

 

[struth]

His letter auditioning for the AG job raised red flags and then a quick google revealed his actions regarding the pardons of the Bush Admin felons in the early 90s confirmed those red flags.

Billy the Bagman

audition? he was already an AG, and highlighted he was quit capable of the job. He’s one of only two people to hold that office twice.

 

[bodecea]

Wow, another rigged election. Dems have no shame.

I bet all your loser sports teams lost by rigging too.....

 

[bodecea]

People that want to undercut faith in the democratic process think that’s a good thing

People who want to explain away their legit loses by whining about rigged elections.

 

[struth]

People who want to explain away their legit loses by whining about rigged elections.

i am not sure what you are talking about? how does that have to do with the fact it takes 2.5 weeks to count votes?

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Every single state using ranked choice voting held their election and they were absolute disasters. Here we are getting results for an election 2 and a half weeks after election day. Why on God's green earth would you think that is a good thing?

The knee-jerk opposition of many supposedly “anti-Establishment” MAGA Republicans to the good government election reform movement for Ranked Choice voting shows how locked into the status quo Two-Party hustle they are. There are many excellent reasons to adopt what is also called “Instant Runoff” elections, which I have outlined in depth elsewhere and can be found at https://fairvote.org/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-winners-earn-strong-mandates-and-reflect-the-states-political-diversity/

The Alaska election runoff Ranked Choice voting election has been tallied carefully and slowly to assure there are no possible challenges in this Republican state. Note the “runoff” in Georgia has not even occurred yet, will waste hundreds of millions, and who knows when the final count will be in. Eventually the Instant Runoff RC system can become both faster and more democratic than any other.

Ranked Choice voting has been a great success in Alaska and elsewhere, but of course any new system requires careful implementation. In Alaska there are several other changes like “open primaries” that have made its introduction a bit more complex and confusing. Alaskans seem happy with RC and have rejected many challenges — including referendum challenges — thrown up by corrupt professional party interests.

Why do you solidarize with the corrupt partisan “two-party” professionals? Why are you against this progressive and democratic reform?

 

[bodecea]

i am not sure what you are talking about? how does that have to do with the fact it takes 2.5 weeks to count votes?

In most states.....especially since MAGAts don't trust voting machines anymore.

 

[struth]

In most states.....especially since MAGAts don't trust voting machines anymore.

really most states? name them

 

[Lesh]

Every single state using ranked choice voting held their election and they were absolute disasters. Here we are getting results for an election 2 and a half weeks after election day. Why on God's green earth would you think that is a good thing?

Need that instant gratification do ya?

I’m more interested in getting it right

 

[surada]

Every single state using ranked choice voting held their election and they were absolute disasters. Here we are getting results for an election 2 and a half weeks after election day. Why on God's green earth would you think that is a good thing?

Murtowski is a republican. She just doesn't back Trump.

 

[Lastamender]

In most states.....especially since MAGAts don't trust voting machines anymore.

Why should they? The Democrats did not trust them either in 2016. You are an uninformed troll with the memory of a goldfish. Stop wasting people's time.

 

[lennypartiv]

I bet all your loser sports teams lost by rigging too.....

 

[g5000]

Actually, they will redo this in November.

This result was the result of what may be unconstitutional ranked voting.

Ranked choice voting has been around for quite a while in several states.

It is not unconstitutional. In fact, the Constitution says quite plainly the states get to decide how to pick their representatives.

They are just required to make the playing field level. So, for example, they can't decide who their representatives are by sending the ones who can do the most jumping jacks.

Trump would be screwed!

 

[g5000]

i am not sure what you are talking about? how does that have to do with the fact it takes 2.5 weeks to count votes?

Well, you see, there are these violent sore losers who really made a yuge mess of things in 2020. They attacked the Capitol. They stomped around election officials' houses with long rifles and handguns. They made a gazillion phone calls to those same election officials threatening to murder them and their families. Even though a lot of those election officials were members of their same party!

The president of the United States tried to twist the arms of election officials to fake enough votes for him to win.

They sent illegal electoral voters to Washington.

And then they forced an incredibly incompetent audit in Arizona by some goons who had ZERO experience auditing elections. Nevertheless, the tards still said Trump lost.


So I am sure you can understand how the election officials this time around, especially in Arizona, are being very, very, very, very, very careful about counting the votes accurately so that the violent retard mob can't accuse them of cheating.

The tards want it both ways. If the results came in too quickly, there was cheating! If the results are coming in too slowly, they are rigging the results!

So...basically...fuck off.


Buh-bye, Kari. Buh-bye, Sarah.

Losers.

Buh-bye.

 

[busybee01]

And Caribou Barbi bites the dust. She is a horrible individual, she believed that the voters in Alaska would forgive for quitting her job as Governor. The one thing I can never forgive McCain for was putting on his ticket, Palin should have stayed a small town mayor.

McCain made a good choice at the time. It is the only reason that I voted for McCain. She was well qualified. However Trump Derangement Syndrome took its toll on her.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

No, the correct caption for that photo is "Finger time!'

 

[Natural Citizen]

Dear Republicans,

Keep pretending that Dobbs and Trump don’t matter to the electorate.

Sincerely,

The Real World

Democrat Mary Peltola wins special U.S. House election, will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress

Peltola, a former state lawmaker from Bethel, topped Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin after ballots were tallied and votes for third-place GOP candidate Nick Begich III were redistributed to his supporters’ second choices.

www.adn.com

No. In the actual real world, this outcome was a consequence of ranked choice voting.

Please stop with the smut.

RCV also set the table for Democrats to decide the winner between the two Republican Senate candidates.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Authoritarians love them some ranked choice voting.

It provides for them an opportunity to strategically weed out any prospective candidate who may be deemed, in their view, a potential threat to whatever authoritarian program they're trying to run.

And, of course, what you end up with is just another yes sir type of minion.