Sarah Palin is right that Ranked Choice Voting is whack. The short-term solution - after the best solution of abolishing RCV completely- is for the Republican party to endorse Sarah as the highest Republican vote-getter in the primary and to withdraw all support and call on Nick Begich to drop out. The other thing that needs to be done is to publish a verified explanation of how to negate RCV on the ballots. For instance, what happens to my vote if I vote Sarah 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th? Does my vote count or get thrown out? And what happens if I vote Sarah #1 and leave the rest of the choices blank? (Other than counting on my local election official to fill in their preferences for me.)
What we don't know is How the algorithm would view such Palin Only ballots? Is there any adjudication for these? If so then likely they will either be thrown out or the adjudicator decides to assign your 2nd choice to Begich and since he will be #3 at the end of it all Begich votes will be given to Peltola. Nice scam they have set up in Alaska.
Sarah Palin is right that Ranked Choice Voting is whack. The short-term solution - after the best solution of abolishing RCV completely- is for the Republican party to endorse Sarah as the highest Republican vote-getter in the primary and to withdraw all support and call on Nick Begich to drop out. The other thing that needs to be done is to publish a verified explanation of how to negate RCV on the ballots. For instance, what happens to my vote if I vote Sarah 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th? Does my vote count or get thrown out? And what happens if I vote Sarah #1 and leave the rest of the choices blank? (Other than counting on my local election official to fill in their preferences for me.)
What we don't know is How the algorithm would view such Palin Only ballots? Is there any adjudication for these? If so then likely they will either be thrown out or the adjudicator decides to assign your 2nd choice to Begich and since he will be #3 at the end of it all Begich votes will be given to Peltola. Nice scam they have set up in Alaska.
That's exactly what concerns me. Dark money my eye. This is pretty darn close to the mafia.