OPINION: Alaska’s ranked-choice vote created Decoy Daniel. Full stop.
In decades of closed primaries, Alaska never saw a serious decoy candidate for a major statewide office. The structure blocked it. The top-four open primary associated with ranked-choice removed that
‘2 Dans’ is the Ranked-Choice fruit of the 2020 ballot measure
Whether Decoy Dan intended to confuse voters or not is almost beside the point. The only reason we're having this fight is that the 2020 ballot measure removed safeguards that once prevented this sort of
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