If Alaska’s experiment with ranked-choice voting has proven anything, it’s that this novel system is rigged to weed out solid conservative candidates, while disguising the true loyalties of left-leaning RINOs who want to cater to conservative voters.
When Alaskans narrowly approved this controversial voting scheme in 2020, few voters knew exactly how it would play out.
In addition to injecting a complicated ranking system into the balloting process, ranked-choice voting eliminated our time-honored party primaries, thereby stripping Alaskans of the right to vet candidates who claim to be conservative or Republican. Now, any person can simply claim a party affiliation and deceptively run under that banner in a chaotic “jungle primary.”
Since the top four vote-getters automatically advance to the general election, it is now much easier for nefarious candidates to gain the system and claim to be a Republican or conservative while avoiding the valuable vetting safeguards that the party primary model once provided to average voters.
This is the ideal situation for Republicans-In-Name-Only to conceal their true identity while luring unsuspecting conservatives to support them.
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The former party primaries gave Alaskans a chance to see self-identified Republicans spar over the issues in order to better choose the candidate who would most faithfully represent, defend and advance the fundamental pillars of the party platform in the general election.
If Alaskans fail to pass Ballot Measure 2 on Nov. 5, we will all but guarantee that the state’s current proliferation of RINOs grows into a mighty stampede, trampling the voices of principled conservatives.
Most conservative voters are busy raising families, supporting their neighbors and churches, and working to put food on the table. Party primaries are invaluable resources to help expose the true colors of candidates who solicit the conservative vote.
Those who want a return to Alaska’s historic voting system, must vote Yes on 2. We probably won’t get a second chance.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
3 Comments
I’m voting YES on 2 because RINO Lisa Murkowski won’t be in office without it. That is why she is on tv last night 7 times while I ate a sandwich. She must think we are stupid or can’t hear. 7 times in 5-7 minutes. Lisa get a job, you’ll need one come next election you run in.
It will get voted out for just being annoying. Everyone but the left hates it.
I would be more hopeful after Voting Yes on 2 if I had heard THIS all over the airwaves instead of the deceptive, nefarious, outside money-funded poppycock we’ve been inundated with. I pray the majority of Alaskans are not as dumb as the No on 2 crowd presumes them to be.