Alaska’s final election tabulation was released via livestream by the Alaska Division of Elections on Nov. 20. These are the final unofficial results in the nine races wherein no candidate earned more than 50% of the vote in the first round of tabulation. All these contests went through ranked-choice runoffs.
Immediately following the final tabulation, Begich issued a statement, thanking Peltola for her service and vowing to fight for Alaska jobs and economy, and unique way of life.
“I’d like to thank Congresswoman Mary Peltola for her service to the state and nation in what is an exceptionally challenging role during an exceptionally challenging moment in our national history,” he said. “To my fellow Alaskans, thank you again for the opportunity to serve you. The work continues and a brighter future begins.”
Peltola conceded defeat, ending her one-term stint in Congress.
“Nick, I’m rooting for you,” she said. “Please don’t forget when DC people keep telling you that you are one of three, you are actually one of more than seven hundred thousand Alaskans who are ready to fight for our state, myself included.”
RESULTS
— Republican challenger Nick Begich has defeated Democrat U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola – 51.31% to 48.69%.
— State Senate District D – Rep. Jesse Bjorkman defeated Ben Carpenter 54.71% to 45.29%.
— State Senate District F – James Kaufman defeated Janice Park, 52.81% to 47.19%.
— State Senate District L – Kelly Merrick defeated Jared Goecker, 55.48% to 44.52%.
— State House District 6 – Sarah Vance defeated Brent Johnson, 52.25% to 47.75%.
— State House District 28 – Elexie Moore defeated Steve Menard, 50.1% to 49.9%.
— State House District 36 – Rebecca Schwanke defeated Brandon Kowalski, 56.6% to 43.4%.
— State House District 38 – Nellie Jimmie defeated C.J McCormick, 51.04% to 48.96%.
— State House District 40 – Robyn Burke defeated Saima Chase, 60.11% to 39.89%.
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So Joel, are you now a supporter of RCV?
That’s exactly how his headline reads. He makes it sound like RCV is a good thing and was responsible for Begich victory. NO! He outright won the vote, it has nothing to do with RCV. Amazing how the RCV vote went from approximately 4K votes to defeat it, to a few hundred votes to keep it 15 days after the election. This state needs to revamp it’s voting laws.
Joel simply reported on the system out come… So Jim, where in this article, do you see anything even suggesting support for RCV ?
Bjorkman and Merrick are the biggest disappointments.
I agree. Bjorkman still has people convinced he is a “conservative” even though his voting record shows otherwise. Obviously people don’t pay attention and don’t do any research for themselves or they’d see he votes with the Democrats who are clearly anything BUT conservative. Also, like Merrick, he’s all about the unions over the average Alaskan. Believing what a politician says about themselves is a risky policy.
Look at all those numbers – so many look rigged to me. The District 28 percentages look just like the repeal RCV percentages 50.1% to 49.9% – whoa!
They stole this election once again, BM 2 and likely other races down ballot. They used machines to create votes, and used machines to invalidate ballots to keep it close. This is the reason why RCV exists, to remove ballots at will due to RCV overvote and exhausted vote features.
This is likely how they defeated David Eastman (by 200 votes) and how they kept the Begich race under 50% just in case they needed a Petola win; they didn’t, and the second the US House fell to Republicans, they declared Begich the winner because as a powerless freshman House member he’s inconsequential.
Then they infused the system with fake ballots, paper we need to touch because just like in 2020, a forensic audit will reveal the steal – like ballots with both blue ballpoint pen ink and Dominion machine generated black toner circles on the same piece of paper. Prove me wrong, show us all the ballots. Then we have the matter of notoriously inaccurate voter rolls, and lack of signature verification, or chain of custody.
Cunch the CVR data and look at the trends: X number of voters voted for Trump and Begich and yet also voted to keep RCV? Not buying it.
I agree with your analysis 100% Vince!
Also agree with Vince. Some serious overhaul of the DOE needs to be done immediately!
As long as RCV is used, voter confidence will suffer. Too convoluted and unverifiable. Renewed voter education and another run as getting rid of it is the only solution.
So we were thrown a red herring. Peltola going away anyway, she’s just a scapegoat and Nick appearing to to be selected through RCV was for appeasement of the Alaskan voters thinking they won without looking further down the road. Communists keep the RCV alive, go to damage control mode while Trump is back in and after another 4 years the communists pick up right where they left off, election tampering and selection. This was a win win for the communists. Why let a crisis for the communists go to waste, right? Nick had Petola beat all along. Don’t be fooled. So now what? Start filing’s with the court, in the same court system that retained all the same judges that have sat the bench overseeing our judicial system since the last election? Fine pickle we have ourselves in. Are we the frog in the pan of water on the gas range? Better jump out soon
Everyone, please help to get a petition going again. Round 2 of trying to get rid of rigged choice voting. Please go to 907Honest.com and sponsor the initiative or to be a signature gatherer. If you have questions, the contact information for 907Honest/Phil Izon is at the bottom of the page!
They want us to believe that more people were interested (voted for) in keeping RCV than increasing the minimum wage. There were 4057 more votes cast for RCV (BM2) then min wage increase (BM1). Oddly, that’s approximately the lead that the repeal had on 5 Nov. But on 20 Nov, viola!!! I don’t believe a word of it.