Seems Vaguely Familiar

Ed Morrissey;

What happens when you combine an all-in or “jungle” primary with ranked-choice voting in the general election? Putting the two modern “innovations” on elections together in Alaska produced this absurd result, in which Republicans lost a House seat despite getting 60% of the vote.

And get ready for it to happen all over again in two months.

15 Replies to “Seems Vaguely Familiar”

  1. The voters don’t vote for a party they vote for a candidate. To quote Sean T at RCP, “60% of voters wanted a Republican, but of those 60%, a substantial enough number preferred a democrat to the former Governor for the Democrat to win. Zero people were disenfranchised.”

    https://twitter.com/SeanTrende/status/1565457515126702084

    The GOP is losing special election after special election. That’s what dying parties do.

    1. Who says? A political party is a corporation. A legal entity. And voluntary.

      Since when can the state, via laws, enter in to a private, voluntary political exercise, and command such and such against the freely assembled people’s own rules?

      If so, what’s to prevent other….um..
      “Fairness”….like mandatory racial, religious, sexual ….um….” diversity “?

      1. To be clear, I am against jungle primaries per se, but there is no reason to believe Palin was robbed in any way. She is after all, terrible and in a terrible party.

    2. I bet you experienced a spontaneous ejaculation while watching Biden do his Nuremberg address on Thursday.

      1. I bet this is the stupidest, foulest and most offensive comment on this web-site to date.

        Will you please go away.

  2. funny how every new ways of voting from drop boxes to rank voting almost always favors Democrats

    could not be rigging and cheating…nah…

    1. You forgot early voting!
      Oh yes! With early voting, the bean counters can see how many votes the GOP candidate got, then run their algorithm to see how many fake votes they will need to produce to put the Dem candidate over the top.
      The only way to defeat this corrupt system is for the public to MASSIVELY vote GOP with strong majorities, and to NOT to vote early, but to vote on election day only!
      I keep saying, even way back when everybody was cheering on the “red tsunami” not to count your chickens, because the GOP will always lose until you fix the election integrity issue. I said way back in 2020 that until this is fixed, the GOP will NEVER win another election, and I don’t see much evidence of any effort to fix this. If anything, I’m seeing all kinds of resistance to address the issue.

      1. Easy way to “fix” the early vote caper:

        ALL such votes to be SEALED and secured and ONLY opened and counted in the presence of scrutineers after the close of all polling places.

        NO PEEKING!

        That will not, however, stop ballot-box stuffing, fraudulent ballot paper manufacturing, multiple running of “selected” paper votes through the scanners, etc., etc.

        1. Those things won’t stop because they are not happening on any scale remotely close to tipping elections.

  3. Aren’t these the same people who want to do away with The Electoral College? Because it’s “not democracy” Yeah, I thought so.

  4. 2 Republicans running?
    Splitting the vote?
    Gotta ask: was the guy running against Palin a RINO, set up by the Dem machine?

    1. Since they had to give half the votes of the other republican, one half to the democrat and one half to Palin, yes it seems this was all planned to help the democrat.

      Democrats have a thousand ways to rig elections, and they will do it for years to come.

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