Alaska voters rejected ballot measure backed by president Donald Trump this would end ranked-choice voting in the state, according to Associated Press . The practice has long drawn the ire of the president and his party — with complaints coming to a head after a man sharing the name Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan ran against him in the midterms in November.
Saturday’s results mark the second consecutive general election in which voters remain loyal to the system. Republican critics describe it as unnecessarily confusing; Trump called it “disastrous and very fraudulent.” Defenders, meanwhile, have presented it as a fairer and less polarizing way to capture the will of the people.
After a month of October in the New York Times report says the campaign of the Democratic candidate for the Senate Marie Peltola had worked to recruit the second Dan Sullivan criticism of the system has intensified.
The president railed against ranked-choice voting, saying Democrats took advantage of it to confuse Alaska voters in last week’s election, and pointing out that it pitted three Republicans against one Democrat in the state’s gubernatorial race. Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the Democratic candidate, finally won the elections turning the seat from red to blue for the first time in decades using a the approval of the Republican senator. Lisa Murkowski .
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