I just read about it. Apparantly, most voters preferred the republican Begich over other 2 candidates and Begich is the Condorcet winner, so I could see why they’d be upset at the result.
Alaska passed it. The election results didn’t go as expected. Everyone in one party (guess) freaked out and started passing bans nationwide.
They tried to repeal RCV in Alaska too, but it failed by a slim count even after 100:1 repeal money advantage. They’ll probably try again: alaskapublic.org/…/alaskas-ranked-choice-repeal-m…
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
chaogomu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fun fact, Condorcet is the inventor of RCV, and threw it out because it almost never produces the Condorcet winner.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope, the “No” campaign (keeping ranked choice voting) outspent the campaign to repeal ranked choice voting by 100:1, largely with out of state money.
fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My bad. Corrected.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks!