In 2022, Alaska made the regrettable decision to move to ranked-choice voting. Confusion ensued and the results of major races were distorted as a result. The state’s sole House seat wound up going to the Democratic candidate who received fewer votes than Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich because the conservative vote wound up being […]
If Boeing was seeking to mend its reputation among the general public after numerous public safety incidents, the company sure has a strange way of going about it. While investigating the in-flight structural failure of the Alaska Airlines flight back in January — the one where the door blew off mid-flight — the National Transportation […]
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Ranked choice voting causes thousands of votes to get “trashed,” contends a new video by a government watchdog set for release Wednesday—one day after Super Tuesday, when 15 states hold presidential nominating contests. The Foundation for Government Accountability provided the video to The Daily Signal ahead of Super Tuesday, which sees […]
Fishermen off the coast of Alaska are returning to shore with a different sort of catch than they set out for. According to CBS News, the boat is bringing a “pretty big balloon” in along with whatever else they may have pulled out of the sea on this voyage. An unnamed “U.S. official” told CBS […]
Opponents of Alaska’s ranked choice voting system say that they have managed to gather enough signatures for a ballot proposition that would end the system. The website AlaskansForHonestElections.com claimed that 150 percent of the required number of signatures was submitted. According to Ballotpedia, opponents of the current system, which features open primaries and a ranked […]
An Alaska man has died from a disease with only seven known human victims, none of them fatalities. The orthopoxvirus Alaskapox was identified nine years ago, according to the Alaska Department of Health. The man who died lived in the Kenai Peninsula in the southern part of the state, about 500 miles from Fairbanks to […]
An Alaskan regional government is urging its residents to be armed and ready. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly voted Tuesday to encourage its people to have guns and ammunition, linking the need to rely on the Second Amendment to an increase in crime and a dearth of state troopers, according to Alaska Public Radio. Assembly member […]
The election process known as ranked choice voting isn’t compatible with one of the oldest state constitutions in America, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, a Democrat, says. Tong released an 11-page legal opinion Tuesday stating that the system of voting, which allows voters to rank their choices of candidates, violates at least two standing provisions […]
Ranked choice voting, in which voters rank candidates on a ballot rather than choose one, may harm black and Native American voters disproportionately, according to a new study by a Princeton University professor. Minority candidates also may be undercut by ranked choice voting, said Nolan McCarty, a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton’s […]
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