The Threat to Incumbents: Under Alaska's traditional closed partisan primaries, moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski faced high vulnerability to being ousted by a right-wing challenger like Kelly Tshibaka long before reaching the general election. The Passage of Ballot Measure 2: In 2020, Alaska passed Ballot Measure 2, which eliminated closed partisan primaries and instituted a top-four ranked-choice voting system. The Covert Survival Mechanism: While publicly portrayed as a citizen-led grassroots initiative, undercover audio and campaign staffer admissions revealed that Murkowski's team secretly supported the measure because its mathematical framework protected her political survival. How Moderates Win via Transfers: Ranked-choice voting creates an environment favorable to coalition-style candidates. While polarizing candidates hit a mathematical ceiling due to alienating other factions, moderate candidates act as universal backup options, absorbing massive transfers of second-choice votes to secure a majority. The Core Takeaway: When evaluating voting reforms, the most important question is not what the reform is called, but whose political survival the new math is designed to protect.

Yes on 2 Alaska

The "Cell Block to Ballot" Flaw: How Alaska’s Election Code Promoted a Convict 🗳️⚖️ The Incarcerated Candidate: In the 2024 U.S. House race, Alaskans were stunned to see Eric Hafner on the general election ballot alongside Mary Peltola and Nick Begich. Hafner is an out-of-state federal inmate serving a 20-year sentence in New York for bomb threats and extortion, with zero ties to Alaska. The "Jungle Primary" Mechanics: In 2020, voters approved an open, all-candidate primary where the top four advance to a ranked-choice general election. In the 2024 primary, Hafner received just 467 votes (0.43%), finishing in sixth place. The Automatic Succession Loophole: When two higher-ranking Republican candidates withdrew before the general election, state law strictly mandated that all four ballot slots be filled by the next highest finishers, automatically bumping a 6th-place inmate into a prime general election slot. The Democratic Lawsuit Fails: Fearing Hafner would siphon votes from Peltola, Alaska Democrats sued to remove him. However, courts ruled to keep him on the ballot under two key principles: Constitutional Inhabitancy: Article I of the U.S. Constitution requires candidates to reside in the state only when elected, not while running. "Neutralized Harm": Judges argued ranked-choice voting protects voters because anyone objecting to a federal prisoner can simply rank him last. Real-World Impact: Despite being locked in a cell 4,000 miles away, Hafner siphoned over 3,400 first-choice votes (roughly 1%) in the general election, acting as a true spoiler. Systemic Exploitation: Compounded by similar "clone candidate" tactics, such as running decoy candidate "Daniel J. Sullivan Jr." to confuse voters and trigger ballot exhaustion, these anomalies have fueled a major statewide backlash, putting a full repeal of the top-four and ranked-choice voting system directly on the ballot.

These two posts make the last 4 years worth of work against Ranked Choice Voting worth it. You, Scooter Kendall were wrong for bringing RCV to Alaska. You, Jeff Landfield and your organization are wrong for supporting this system in 2019-2026.

The creator of Ranked Choice Voting in Alaska showing his frustration with potential Democrat manipulation of his election system. 😂

Alaska We Got The Poo On Us. VOTE YES ON 2 TO END THE POO. Ranked Choice Voting is a pure Alaskan dumpster fire. 🗑️🔥 Here’s how this nonsense actually plays out: 🤦‍♂️ Imagine you’re at a potluck in the bush and it’s time for the good stuff. 🌲🍲 The options are: Candied Salmon 🐟🍯 King Crab 🦀👑 Moose Poo 💩🦌 Blueberry Pie 🥧🫐 Everyone votes. 🗳️ 49 people go hard for Candied Salmon (Hell yeah!) 🙌🐟 24 lock in on King Crab (Solid!) 🦀👍 17 somehow pick Moose Poo… (What the actual hell?) 🤢💩 10 people actually want Blueberry Pie (Really?) 🥧🤷 Blueberry Pie gets the fewest votes, so it’s gone. ❌🥧 But those 10 pie fans all ranked Moose Poo as their second choice. 🥈💩 New tally: 📊 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Moose Poo: 27 💩 King Crab: 24 🦀 King Crab is eliminated next. ❌🦀 And every single King Crab voter? They ranked Moose Poo as their next pick. 🤯 Final score: 🏆 Moose Poo: 51 💩 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Wait… WHAT IN THE ACTUAL TUNDRA?! 🥶🛑 The thing almost nobody wanted just beat the clear favorite. 📉 The people who were craving Candied Salmon (and would rather starve than touch Moose Poo) never even got their second choice counted. 🚫🍽️ The least popular option wins simply because it hung around long enough while everyone else’s votes got secretly redistributed in the back room. 🕵️‍♂️🔄 That’s Ranked Choice Voting. 🤡🗳️ Your first-choice vote can be thrown in the burn barrel. 🛢️🔥 Someone’s third or fourth pick can decide the winner. 🎲🎯 It’s not “majority rule.” ❌⚖️ It’s last-man-standing by mathematical sleight of hand 🪄🎩 — like winning the Iditarod by being the only musher who didn’t freeze to death. 🐕❄️🥇 And who shoved this mess on Alaska? 🤷‍♂️🏔️ Outside dark-money networks 💸🌑 — including the Arabella Advisors machine and its billionaire-funded web of NGOs 🕸️💰 — poured millions into forcing Ranked Choice Voting down our throats in 2020. 🤮💵 They spent a fortune to make our elections more complicated, more confusing, and easier for the Moose Poo candidate to sneak through. 🥷💩 Alaskans never asked for this. 🙅‍♂️🛑 We don’t need it. 🚫 We don’t want it. 😠 This November we finally get to take out the trash. 🗓️🗑️ Vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 ✅🗳️ to REMOVE and REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting from Alaska once and for all. ✂️🛑 Let’s get back to simple, honest elections where the candidate with the most votes actually wins. 🇺🇸🥇 YES to ENDING DARK MONEY 🛑💸 YES to ENDING ARABELLA ADVISORS 🛑🕸️ YES to ENDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🛑🗳️ YES to ENDING SOROS IN ALASKA 🛑💰 YES on 2. ✅✌️

Alaska We Got The Poo On Us. VOTE YES ON 2 TO END THE POO. Ranked Choice Voting is a pure Alaskan dumpster fire. 🗑️🔥 Here’s how this nonsense actually plays out: 🤦‍♂️ Imagine you’re at a potluck in the bush and it’s time for the good stuff. 🌲🍲 The options are: Candied Salmon 🐟🍯 King Crab 🦀👑 Moose Poo 💩🦌 Blueberry Pie 🥧🫐 Everyone votes. 🗳️ 49 people go hard for Candied Salmon (Hell yeah!) 🙌🐟 24 lock in on King Crab (Solid!) 🦀👍 17 somehow pick Moose Poo… (What the actual hell?) 🤢💩 10 people actually want Blueberry Pie (Really?) 🥧🤷 Blueberry Pie gets the fewest votes, so it’s gone. ❌🥧 But those 10 pie fans all ranked Moose Poo as their second choice. 🥈💩 New tally: 📊 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Moose Poo: 27 💩 King Crab: 24 🦀 King Crab is eliminated next. ❌🦀 And every single King Crab voter? They ranked Moose Poo as their next pick. 🤯 Final score: 🏆 Moose Poo: 51 💩 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Wait… WHAT IN THE ACTUAL TUNDRA?! 🥶🛑 The thing almost nobody wanted just beat the clear favorite. 📉 The people who were craving Candied Salmon (and would rather starve than touch Moose Poo) never even got their second choice counted. 🚫🍽️ The least popular option wins simply because it hung around long enough while everyone else’s votes got secretly redistributed in the back room. 🕵️‍♂️🔄 That’s Ranked Choice Voting. 🤡🗳️ Your first-choice vote can be thrown in the burn barrel. 🛢️🔥 Someone’s third or fourth pick can decide the winner. 🎲🎯 It’s not “majority rule.” ❌⚖️ It’s last-man-standing by mathematical sleight of hand 🪄🎩 — like winning the Iditarod by being the only musher who didn’t freeze to death. 🐕❄️🥇 And who shoved this mess on Alaska? 🤷‍♂️🏔️ Outside dark-money networks 💸🌑 — including the Arabella Advisors machine and its billionaire-funded web of NGOs 🕸️💰 — poured millions into forcing Ranked Choice Voting down our throats in 2020. 🤮💵 They spent a fortune to make our elections more complicated, more confusing, and easier for the Moose Poo candidate to sneak through. 🥷💩 Alaskans never asked for this. 🙅‍♂️🛑 We don’t need it. 🚫 We don’t want it. 😠 This November we finally get to take out the trash. 🗓️🗑️ Vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 ✅🗳️ to REMOVE and REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting from Alaska once and for all. ✂️🛑 Let’s get back to simple, honest elections where the candidate with the most votes actually wins. 🇺🇸🥇 YES to ENDING DARK MONEY 🛑💸 YES to ENDING ARABELLA ADVISORS 🛑🕸️ YES to ENDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🛑🗳️ YES to ENDING SOROS IN ALASKA 🛑💰 YES on 2. ✅✌️

Alaska We Got The Poo On Us. VOTE YES ON 2 TO END THE POO. Ranked Choice Voting is a pure Alaskan dumpster fire. 🗑️🔥 Here’s how this nonsense actually plays out: 🤦‍♂️ Imagine you’re at a potluck in the bush and it’s time for the good stuff. 🌲🍲 The options are: Candied Salmon 🐟🍯 King Crab 🦀👑 Moose Poo 💩🦌 Blueberry Pie 🥧🫐 Everyone votes. 🗳️ 49 people go hard for Candied Salmon (Hell yeah!) 🙌🐟 24 lock in on King Crab (Solid!) 🦀👍 17 somehow pick Moose Poo… (What the actual hell?) 🤢💩 10 people actually want Blueberry Pie (Really?) 🥧🤷 Blueberry Pie gets the fewest votes, so it’s gone. ❌🥧 But those 10 pie fans all ranked Moose Poo as their second choice. 🥈💩 New tally: 📊 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Moose Poo: 27 💩 King Crab: 24 🦀 King Crab is eliminated next. ❌🦀 And every single King Crab voter? They ranked Moose Poo as their next pick. 🤯 Final score: 🏆 Moose Poo: 51 💩 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Wait… WHAT IN THE ACTUAL TUNDRA?! 🥶🛑 The thing almost nobody wanted just beat the clear favorite. 📉 The people who were craving Candied Salmon (and would rather starve than touch Moose Poo) never even got their second choice counted. 🚫🍽️ The least popular option wins simply because it hung around long enough while everyone else’s votes got secretly redistributed in the back room. 🕵️‍♂️🔄 That’s Ranked Choice Voting. 🤡🗳️ Your first-choice vote can be thrown in the burn barrel. 🛢️🔥 Someone’s third or fourth pick can decide the winner. 🎲🎯 It’s not “majority rule.” ❌⚖️ It’s last-man-standing by mathematical sleight of hand 🪄🎩 — like winning the Iditarod by being the only musher who didn’t freeze to death. 🐕❄️🥇 And who shoved this mess on Alaska? 🤷‍♂️🏔️ Outside dark-money networks 💸🌑 — including the Arabella Advisors machine and its billionaire-funded web of NGOs 🕸️💰 — poured millions into forcing Ranked Choice Voting down our throats in 2020. 🤮💵 They spent a fortune to make our elections more complicated, more confusing, and easier for the Moose Poo candidate to sneak through. 🥷💩 Alaskans never asked for this. 🙅‍♂️🛑 We don’t need it. 🚫 We don’t want it. 😠 This November we finally get to take out the trash. 🗓️🗑️ Vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 ✅🗳️ to REMOVE and REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting from Alaska once and for all. ✂️🛑 Let’s get back to simple, honest elections where the candidate with the most votes actually wins. 🇺🇸🥇 YES to ENDING DARK MONEY 🛑💸 YES to ENDING ARABELLA ADVISORS 🛑🕸️ YES to ENDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🛑🗳️ YES to ENDING SOROS IN ALASKA 🛑💰 YES on 2. ✅✌️

I honestly can't believe Ranked Choice Voting and Arabella Advisors are going to elect this guy to be the Governor of Alaska.

Alaska We Got The Poo On Us. VOTE YES ON 2 TO END THE POO. Ranked Choice Voting is a pure Alaskan dumpster fire. 🗑️🔥 Here’s how this nonsense actually plays out: 🤦‍♂️ Imagine you’re at a potluck in the bush and it’s time for the good stuff. 🌲🍲 The options are: Candied Salmon 🐟🍯 King Crab 🦀👑 Moose Poo 💩🦌 Blueberry Pie 🥧🫐 Everyone votes. 🗳️ 49 people go hard for Candied Salmon (Hell yeah!) 🙌🐟 24 lock in on King Crab (Solid!) 🦀👍 17 somehow pick Moose Poo… (What the actual hell?) 🤢💩 10 people actually want Blueberry Pie (Really?) 🥧🤷 Blueberry Pie gets the fewest votes, so it’s gone. ❌🥧 But those 10 pie fans all ranked Moose Poo as their second choice. 🥈💩 New tally: 📊 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Moose Poo: 27 💩 King Crab: 24 🦀 King Crab is eliminated next. ❌🦀 And every single King Crab voter? They ranked Moose Poo as their next pick. 🤯 Final score: 🏆 Moose Poo: 51 💩 Candied Salmon: 49 🐟 Wait… WHAT IN THE ACTUAL TUNDRA?! 🥶🛑 The thing almost nobody wanted just beat the clear favorite. 📉 The people who were craving Candied Salmon (and would rather starve than touch Moose Poo) never even got their second choice counted. 🚫🍽️ The least popular option wins simply because it hung around long enough while everyone else’s votes got secretly redistributed in the back room. 🕵️‍♂️🔄 That’s Ranked Choice Voting. 🤡🗳️ Your first-choice vote can be thrown in the burn barrel. 🛢️🔥 Someone’s third or fourth pick can decide the winner. 🎲🎯 It’s not “majority rule.” ❌⚖️ It’s last-man-standing by mathematical sleight of hand 🪄🎩 — like winning the Iditarod by being the only musher who didn’t freeze to death. 🐕❄️🥇 And who shoved this mess on Alaska? 🤷‍♂️🏔️ Outside dark-money networks 💸🌑 — including the Arabella Advisors machine and its billionaire-funded web of NGOs 🕸️💰 — poured millions into forcing Ranked Choice Voting down our throats in 2020. 🤮💵 They spent a fortune to make our elections more complicated, more confusing, and easier for the Moose Poo candidate to sneak through. 🥷💩 Alaskans never asked for this. 🙅‍♂️🛑 We don’t need it. 🚫 We don’t want it. 😠 This November we finally get to take out the trash. 🗓️🗑️ Vote YES on Ballot Measure 2 ✅🗳️ to REMOVE and REPEAL Ranked Choice Voting from Alaska once and for all. ✂️🛑 Let’s get back to simple, honest elections where the candidate with the most votes actually wins. 🇺🇸🥇 YES to ENDING DARK MONEY 🛑💸 YES to ENDING ARABELLA ADVISORS 🛑🕸️ YES to ENDING RANKED CHOICE VOTING 🛑🗳️ YES to ENDING SOROS IN ALASKA 🛑💰 YES on 2. ✅✌️

The "Phantom Candidate" Loophole: Why the DOJ Stepped Into Alaska’s Senate Race 🗳️⚖️ The Duplicate Name Scheme: In a high-stakes Alaska U.S. Senate election, voters were confronted with two different candidates sharing the exact same name: incumbent Dan Sullivan and challenger Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.. The "Phantom" Campaign: Alaska election officials confirmed the second Sullivan ran no genuine campaign, holding zero rallies and presenting no platform. His sole function was to act as a decoy, exploiting ballot confusion to siphon votes away from the incumbent. The State-Level Blind Spot: When challenged, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled four months prior to the election that the duplicate candidate was legally permitted to remain on the ballot. Because Alaska state statutes lacked any explicit prohibition against duplicate names running in the same race, the state court's hands were tied. The Constitutional Override: While Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution gives individual states the power to regulate the "times, places, and manner" of elections, its second clause provides an explicit federal fail-safe: Congress holds the ultimate authority to make or alter those regulations at any time. Federal Intervention: To stop the scheme, federal plaintiffs filed an urgent lawsuit utilizing the National Voter Registration Act. They argued that weaponizing ballot layout to manufacture voter error is a civil rights violation, not legitimate political maneuvering. The National Stakes: While identical-name tactics have appeared in small municipal contests, federal intervention in a U.S. Senate race is historically unprecedented. Because a single Senate seat impacts the national balance of power, federal supremacy serves as the ultimate line of defense when local statutory gaps fail to protect voters.

The "Phantom Candidate" Lawsuit: Federal Intervention in Alaska’s Ballot Battle 🗳️⚖️ The Duplicate Name Trap: Alaskan voters faced a confusing U.S. Senate ballot featuring two separate candidates sharing the exact same name: Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. The "Phantom" Strategy: Election officials acknowledged that the second candidate ran no actual campaign—holding no rallies and having no platform, serving solely as a spoiler tactic designed to confuse voters and siphon votes away from the genuine nominee. State Law Blind Spot: When challenged, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the duplicate candidate could legally remain on the ballot because Alaska's state code lacks any statute prohibiting candidates with identical names from running in the same race. Federal Intervention via the DOJ: Because a U.S. Senate seat impacts the national balance of legislative power, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened. Federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit demanding the duplicate candidate's removal under the Voter Registration Act, arguing that intentionally weaponizing ballot layouts to deceive voters constitutes a civil rights violation rather than ordinary political maneuvering. Constitutional Override Authority: While Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution grants states the authority to administer elections, it explicitly gives Congress and federal authorities override power to step in when state laws fail to protect voters from deliberate manipulation. The Bottom Line: When local loopholes leave an electoral system exposed to bad-faith exploits, federal fail-safes serve as the crucial line of defense to preserve election integrity.