RANKED CHOICE VOTING: The facts of what happened in Alaska
In response to Mr. Rockford’s statements about the 2022 Alaska House District 31, the facts are as follows. A Democratic candidate got elected over the two Republicans who collectively received more votes in the first round (by only 100 out of 5,000). The Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) process did just what it was suppose to do: give people choices.
First off, had the election gone to a runoff, Maxine Dibert would probably still have been elected, but the ranked choice saved that extra cost and delay. Second, it enabled Kelly Nash to run for office, and get votes from people who preferred her without concern about wasting their vote, because their second choice vote could then go to one of the two leading candidates.
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