As expected, the insufferable Lisa Murkowski has won reelection in Alaska despite losing the first-round republican vote.
As a result of neither Murkowski or Tshibaka winning 50% in the first round, the ranking system then adds the second choice of all voters. Democrat voters chose Murkowski as their second choice providing her the win in the ranked choice voting system.
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection, defeating Donald Trump-endorsed GOP rival Kelly Tshibaka.
Murkowski beat Tshibaka in the Nov. 8 ranked choice election. The results were announced Wednesday, when elections officials tabulated the ranked choice results after neither candidate won more than 50% of first-choice votes. Murkowski wound up with 54% of the vote after ranked choice voting, picking up a majority of the votes cast for Democrat Pat Chesbro after she was eliminated.
“I am honored that Alaskans — of all regions, backgrounds and party affiliations — have once again granted me their confidence to continue working with them and on their behalf in the U.S. Senate,” Murkowski said in a statement. “I look forward to continuing the important work ahead of us.”
Tshibaka in a statement posted on her website congratulated Murkowski but took fault with ranked choice voting.
“The new election system has been frustrating to many Alaskans, because it was indisputably designed as an incumbent-protection program, and it clearly worked as intended,” she said. (read more)
They are so proud of themselves.
Get ready for the NEXT thing they’re going to do to you.
Ranked choice voting vs Dominion: Which system will win the race for global corporatism?
You can bet both systems were used in the theft in Alaska.
Rank Choice Voting is in process in many states and will soon be here
Ranked choice only helps RINOs and democrats.
Who are the exactly the same!
Both are Republicans Rinos against MAGA ,But we’ll fight for MAGA 2024 leadership,
Democrats re-elect Murkowski again
Mitch wins again.
Which is why we need to start a new party as the Republicans did in 1856 when the Whigs no longer represented them. If those whom he backed would back him: Lake, Masters, Bolduc, Tshibaka, the Freedom Caucus, it woukd be up and running. At least 80% of the GOP base would leave leaving the McPublicans without voters. What have we got to lose? Losing and then having our McLeaders giving us the finger and blaming us? No thanks,
Time to takedown the Commiecons before they take We The People down!
Ranked Choice violates the principle of One Man, One Vote. It lets the losers vote twice.
Not to be confused with a Chinese server tech in Shenzhen voting 100,000 times while tabulating the CheatWare Voting Machines.
Totally agree-They had to realize this could/would allow for the manipulation of voting by those in power.
The states control the election process. Maybe if you could just rank your selection of candidates within the party of your first choice then at least you wouldn’t effect the other party nominees. Probably hard to audit.
100% agreed….
Was there ever any doubt?
Yeah, we’ll just vote our way out of this. Next time.
Riiiiight.
Ranked choice voting needs to be made illegal.
Since it’s not illegal yet, they will continue to use it to screw MAGA folks
The swamp wins again … America loses.
It’s time to repeal the 17th amendment. Who’s with me!?
Not stupid by a long shot , They like to use that as a cover/excuse , BUT really the devious UNIPARTY Party , they know what They are doing even if they pretend otherwise …
There’s only one way out of all of this.
Get rid of the McFailures.
Questions for Alaskans:
Do native Alaskans tend to vote more Democrat than Republican? If so, any idea why?
What parts of AK (the rural and semi-remote parts, not ANWR where Heimo lives)are reliably red?
Considering AK as retirement destination but not so sure due to the politics up there.
Thank you.
Murkowsi lost twice, but in ranked choice, Democrats all put her as their second choice. The questiona are: How come she ran after she got beat in the primary? And 2) why didn’t Alaskan Repubs give Tshibaka more than 50% of the vote?
Maybe they did give Tshibaka
more than 50% but we’ll never know unless we HANDCOUNT AUDIT THE BALLOTS CAST, and also examine who voted absentee/mail in, to assure they really live in the precincts they cast ballots in. Our voter rolls are extremely bloated, and need to be cleaned up immediately. This is how they cheat, with bloated voter rolls and mail in ballots. In the district I live in I recently estimated we have at least 1000 more registered voters than residents over 18 who could be eligible to vote, and possibly as many as 2000 when you realize all over 18 don’t register to vote, at least 10% do not.
Amen.
Add sample auditthe ballots and contact the voter and ask the voter these questions
1.Did you cast a ballot
and
2.Is your cast ballot accurate?
Yep….exactly! They have f’d us again! And they know we know what and how they are doing it….so what? Here comes that bird again! They don’t care what we know cause they don’t think we can or will do a damn thing about it! And for the most part…as far as the judicial system goes…they have that right. The judicial system is owned by these radicals too.
But we CAN do something about it. We can support ot start a third party to show them what it is like to get hosed.
It used to be a big deal to be elected senator. Now it is not.
Because no one is really elected. They’re chosen, and then stay in the position until they retire or die.
Selections not Elections.
So McConnel and the GOPe has now flipped Alaska to the Democrats because they couldn’t stand the prospect of the state going GOP-MAGA!?!?
We are up against some power-hungry, money-grubbing, Machiavellian, bastards.
He’s owned by the CCP, his wife’s father is a big shipping magnate in CCP.
“You’re my Wife and my Handler…my Wife and my handler!”
Chinatown.
“Get used to this”
HELL NO!!!!!
Mike Lindell is running for RNC CHAIR!! Wowza………There are 168 votes 3 from each state.
Spread that news far and wide !!!!!
It’s time we clean house BIG TIME!!!
This is just one more reason to say goodbye to the back stabbing GOP. I really wish Trump would go ahead and start his own party so we could have something to look forward to, politically.
We need to get rid of the rot that’s within our party and ranks.
Yeah, we’ve all been saying that for years and years and it just keeps getting worse. The GOP is not fixable because they no longer care about their voters.
McConnell did the same thing to Roy Moore in Alabama.
has anyone explored the Constitutionality of one citizen, one vote? why should anyone be able
to vote twice for one elected position and
have both counted?
Yes ! what the heck! Absolutely , especially across party lines – But the SC will probably allow it 5/ 4 under the “ Mulligan Rule”- as in golf , voters will be allowed a “ 2nd vote Mulligan ” if first vote doesn’t go far enough …
I too think that the primaries should be party line voting. Democrats should not have any input into who will be the Republican candidates, and vice versa. You should not be able to sway the other party’s candidate to benefit your own. One citizen, one vote.
SC Senator Tim Scott endorsed this establishment louse.. I once voted for him. This past election I skipped passed him. He got bought off early in his career… Between him and grahm SC has no senate representation
Yep. Tim Scott is just a Globalist establishment Bush Cheney hack. Remember SELF first and to hell with the country.
Why bother to vote any more?
Asking as an Arizona resident.
Just go and vote! Don’t drop your ballot of in some 3rd option box, go and vote live in person
One bad thought I had and not giving them any ideas < sure they are thinking about this already , can RINO /GOPe try too rig primaries so that cumulative votes / ranking whatever from splitters used to pile up votes against PDJT and overcome his victory.. or to be totally cynical the GOPe, going into the primaries, will become the best damn ballot harvester you have ever seen ….
Do it and be thrown into jail. There are two sets of laws in this country.
BOO! MM and LM suck!
If this doesn’t convince the MAGA Republican base they have no future sticking with the Republicans, nothing will. Sure a third party will lose, but what do the MAGAs do with the establishment Repubs anyway? This is the second time the Alaskan GOP has voted Democrat Murkowski out jn a primary…the other time was 2004…and the second time she refused to leave and with help of her Democrat pals went back to DC to screw over Republicans by giving Dems bipartisan cover.
How many times does Lucy have to pull away the football for us to understand the Establishment Repubs are not going to change? Vote them out in the primaries? We did that in NH, AZ, AK and other states. And they say voting Libertarian is a wasted vote. I wld rather waste my vote than have it stolen which the McPublicans just did.
What on earth is going on in Alaska? I lived there for nearly three years, and I didn’t know a single democrat supporter. People I knew were just a bunch of hard working, patriotic, conservatives. I keep in touch with some of those folks, and they are disgusted with this past election.
You can tell what a FakeCon site “Red State” is since their article on this just says that Lisa Murky and the Peltola beat “Trump backed Candidates”. They’re trying to hide the fact that Pelota is a liberal Pelosi Democrat (is there any other kind in the House?) or that Lisa Murky endorsed and helped elect a Democrat and lost us a valuable seat in a narrowly divided house. Like throwing away the Alabama Senate Seat in 2017, losing this one seat could come back and bite us.
When are conservatives and MAGA going to get smart? The only way to get rid of Lisa Murky was to have the Democrat as the 2nd choice in their ranked ballots. You can be sure that Lisa Murkey’s “Moderate Republicans” all chose the Democrat over the Tshibaka. THis is no different than GOPe all chanting “Country above Party” and hoping Biden and Hillary won. Stop voting for RINOS. Don’t vote them in the primary and don’t vote for them in the General. Better to elect a Democrat and take the short-term L, and then get the seat back later with a REAL conservative!
Candidates have to actually campaign and have a strategy to defeat the opponent.
Sick of candidates just putting their name on the ballot and expecting to win.
Lake, I’m talking to you.
Punish the RINOs. Refuse to vote them. Either in the primary or the General. Lisa Murky voted against against ACB and Kavanaugh. But she voted FOR Biden’s radical SCOTUS judge Jumbojino-Brown. We gain nothing by having her in the Senate. WE would have been better off losing to a Democrat in 2016, and then electing a solid conservative in 2022.
BTW, its interesting how Senators are able to play games with their votes. On the key vote which was Cloture, LIsa Murkey voted against Trump’s two picks. But voted FOR during the final confirmation vote, when it wasn’t needed.
agreed. Establishment gop is dead to me. Senator Tim Scott now wears that designation for endorsing murkowsky
How can ranked choice voting be Constitutional? It sure seems to go against the One Person, One Vote doctrine and violate the equal protection of the 14th amendment.
This proves you don’t have to fool all the people just enough of the people to win an election.
Depressing and more than annoying.
Its Ranked Installation not choice. They just had to make sure there were enough republicans on the ballot to guarantee no one reached 50%. Dilution means elimination in this crazy ranked BS that we somehow let take control of our election process here in AK. The whole thing makes me sick. The outcome is baked into the printing of the ballot. Most don’t realise the significance of Alaska for its resources or its refuge for those seeking sanity from the wokeness of the lower 48 but not anymore. Winter is coming.
That’s some Grade-A FUBAR right there!!
🤮
Right in the pooper, thanks Mitch everything worked beautifully for you. And you and McCarthy are still on top.
Let Lisa’s employees know how you feel. There are a few choice words that fall under Freedom of Speech.
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Murkowski’s gold medal sure looks bronze to me.
I have read and re-read Alaska’s ‘ranked choice voting’ fix… What were you people thinking????