In ranked-choice voting, a candidate needs more than 50 percent of the vote to be declared the winner outright. If the front-runner doesn’t have that percentage of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes that round drops off the ballot, and those who ranked that candidate first will have their votes go to their second choice. The process continues until a candidate has more than 50 percent of the vote.
The state’s special House race election will be the only race with ranked-choice voting on Tuesday, but it will provide a preview of how other candidates running in races such as the state’s Senate election will do in November.
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This can go both ways, imagine this in a blue state? Republicans get representation, so in Alaska democrats get representation. It's not perfect, but that's what they chose. The main thing is voter integrity and people casting ballots and getting counted. NOT adding 100,000 votes at 3am then declaring a winner right after!
But honestly, when it comes to senate elections, it should be state legislators who ultimately chose. That means recalling a senator and replacing him or her immediately, not having elections every 6 years while they do whatever they want. The 17th amendment was fraudulently passed anyway just like the 16th, state legislators in a 3/4ths majority NEVER voted to remove their rights. It was 100% fraud to give power to the elite away from the working class people.