Murky in Alaska
17th August 2022
Scott Johnson at Power Line.
Project Veritas has an excellent story on Lisa Murkowski’s path to reelection. It follows from the ballot measure narrowly adopted by Alaska voters in 2020. The path combines an open “nonpartisan” primary with 19 candidates. The top four candidates in today’s open primary will proceed from the primary to the November election.
In the November election voters are then to rank their choices among the four candidates on the ballot. If no candidate receives 50 percent plus one of the first-choice votes, the election will be decided by the ranked-choice voting method. Ballotpedia explains the applicable ranked-choice scheme here.
Ranked-choice voting is sometimes called an ‘Australian ballot’. The key here is that if Democrats can’t get their candidate elected (and they can’t), RINO Murkowski will be their second choice.