Sarah Palin and ranked choice voting I find the results of this election quite telling, and...

helenS · 36-40, F

I live in Europe, but I listen and watch closely. Apparently the Republicans are a minority in the USA, with millions of votes less than their competitors nation-wide. As a result, they claim there was "voter fraud" everywhere, and I think they will be able to "win" elections in the future only by using tricks (like that "gerrymandering").

redredred · M

“ Just remember, poll after poll shows a strong majority of Americans:
1) Support some kind of abortion rights,
2) Think Trump needs to be criminally investigated,
3) Know the 2020 election was legitimate”

Number 1 is partially right, the rest are total bullshit. A vast majority think the 2020 election was hinkey

Budwick · 70-79, M

Just remember, poll after poll shows a strong majority of Americans:
1) Support some kind of abortion rights,
2) Think Trump needs to be criminally investigated,
3) Know the 2020 election was legitimate

1) There never were RIGHTS to abortion.
The unborn baby DOES have a right to life however.

2) The last six years have been nothing but investigations of Trump.
None, of which have produced squat.

3) What we KNOW actually, is that there was considerable fraud in the 2020 election.

Slade · 56-60, M

H stop listening to these idiots. Gerrymandering is determined by state legiskatures (which do include both parties). They are decided mostly to protect incumbents. They are anything but controlled by one party and only affect local races

Groan.

ElwoodBlues · M

I think it's better than the "largest plurality" we currently have in most US states.

If you look deep into the math of voting systems involving 3 or more candidates, weird paradoxes always arise. There is no known perfect voting system for more than two candidates. I think ranked choice is probably the best system. Here's how it worked recently in Alaska among 3 candidates:

Instead of picking just one candidate, as voters do in most other states, Alaskans were invited to rank the three candidates on the ballot in the order of their preference. And after all ballots were counted, 40 percent of voters had chosen Peltola as their first choice, 31 percent had chosen Palin and 29 percent had chosen Republican businessman Nick Begich III. Under the rules of ranked-choice voting, Begich — as the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes — was then eliminated, and his votes were redistributed to whomever his voters ranked second.

Unsurprisingly, most of Begich’s votes (50 percent) went to his fellow Republican, Palin. But an impressive 29 percent went to Peltola, and 21 percent were “exhausted,” meaning there was no second-choice pick, and the votes were essentially thrown out. That combination was enough for Peltola to win. While Palin gained more votes from the redistribution than Peltola did, Peltola was starting from a higher total, and receiving 29 percent of Begich’s votes was enough to keep her ahead of Palin. In the end, Peltola received 51 percent of the votes counted in the final round, while Palin received 49 percent.

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beckyromero · 36-40, F

I don't think it says much more except that Palin and Begich split the Republican vote.

They ran a pretty nasty campaign against each other.

All three are facing the voters again in November for the full two-year term. It will be interesting to see if voters are willing to give Rep.-elect Mary Peltola as many "second choice" spots again.

bijouxbroussard · F

I hate ranked choice voting ! It’s the stupidest system, and while it exists here for mayoral and supervisors elections, it’s not, thankfully, been on the ballot for Presidential election. At least not yet, and I hope nobody’s stupid enough to implement it there. A frightening number of people stopped voting when ranked choice was implemented.