Right-wing Republican Kelly Tshibaka, who lost a U.S. Senate race against Sen. Lisa Murkowski, announced Monday that she is launching a new group to advocate against Alaska’s ranked choice voting system.
U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka shows a hand-drawn example of a ranked-choice ballot for her race, held up by her husband Niki Tshibaka, at an event at a Lake Hood airplane hangar on November 3, 2022.
Ranked choice voting was implemented in Alaska through a 2020 ballot measure that was narrowly approved by voters. Under Alaska’s new voting rules, used in 2022 for the first time, all candidates in congressional and legislative races run in open, nonpartisan primaries. The top-four vote getters then advance to ranked-choice general elections.
. Tshibaka’s loss came despite support from the Alaska Republican Party and an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.from Preserve Democracy, the group will seek to stop or reverse ranked choice voting methods in Alaska and other states “by producing evidence showing the undemocratic effects of RCV.”
“At this point in time, I think it just really muddies the waters. And it makes it a political thing when it shouldn’t be a political thing,” Tshibaka said. “I’m concerned that if I get involved in any of these efforts to try and directly repeal it here, it really won’t be about the effort. It’ll be more about the big names involved.”
“It’s concerning to me that across Alaska the votes didn’t come in, across political parties they didn’t come in, across the socio-economy spectrum they didn’t come in,” Tshibaka said.
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