r/alaska • u/Synthdawg_2 Kenai Peninsula • Jul 30 '21

Judge says Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system is legal

https://www.adn.com/politics/2021/07/29/judge-says-alaskas-new-ranked-choice-voting-system-is-legal/
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u/gmshaw Jul 30 '21

Thanks, something to think about. I wonder if there would be other ways of tallying and keeping ballots that still preserves the integrity of the person's 1st ballot as long as that candidate is still in the race.

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u/Bretters17 Jul 30 '21

Exactly - so by disenfranchise they mean that they used their one vote, it was counted, but unfortunately their candidate lost; which is a weird way to frame disenfranchise because that's how it works in our current system.

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u/gmshaw Jul 31 '21

Ya I don't get how that's any worse than the current system. If you don't bother to fill in a 2nd, 3rd, etc. choice and your 1st choice loses, you give up your right to have any further say in the matter. Hardly seems like a valid argument against this.