Alaskan Democrat Mary Peltola legitimately won her special U.S. House election. Ranked choice voting is a legal way to conduct elections, and it's the law in Alaska.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.,"60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat ‘won.’"
Alaska is using ranked choice voting to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Rep. Don Young. The election that Peltola won was a special election to serve out the remainder of Young’s term, which is only a few months. Another election in November between the same candidates will determine who holds the seat for a full two-year term.
by Cotton opposing the idea of Arkansas adopting ranked choice voting. Ultimately, a question about whether to adopt ranked choice voting didn’t make it to the ballot in Cotton’s home state of Arkansas.In a traditional election, either a primary or a general election, voters choose one candidate. But under ranked choice voting, the voters rank candidates in descending order of preference.
Enough voters listed Peltola as either their first or second choice to ultimately give her about 51.47% of the vote, according to results that will be certified Sept. 2.
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