I’ve been known to complain about ranked voting advocates who promote IRV for features it doesn’t have, but this form of strategic nomination is one thing IRV does defend against. I’d consider this a dirty trick if they did it here, but all Alaskans have to do is rank the Dans Sullivan consecutively on their ballots (in either order). Then Dan Sullivan can’t be eliminated until he gets re-eliminated after getting votes transferred from the first eliminated Dan Sullivan.
They did a really nice job making which Dan Sullivan was which, by labeling the sitting senator ‘incumbant’, and using middle initials. I, frankly, don’t feel bad for you misplacing your vote if you lack enough awareness about out political system to understand the vocabulary,or the give-a-shit to whip your phone out, or ask someone what that word means. Or to Google which one has what middle initial.
But yeah. What you described is the strategy. It’s on their ads. ‘pick your favorite Republican, rank the other two,and blank the Democrats. It’s how Alaska wins’ (while also running ranked choice voting repeal ads, because it’s ‘dumb, dumb, dumb’ and makes voting confusing. The political ads this season are so fucked. And it’s NON STOP.
I’ve been known to complain about ranked voting advocates who promote IRV for features it doesn’t have, but this form of strategic nomination is one thing IRV does defend against. I’d consider this a dirty trick if they did it here, but all Alaskans have to do is rank the Dans Sullivan consecutively on their ballots (in either order). Then Dan Sullivan can’t be eliminated until he gets re-eliminated after getting votes transferred from the first eliminated Dan Sullivan.
They did a really nice job making which Dan Sullivan was which, by labeling the sitting senator ‘incumbant’, and using middle initials. I, frankly, don’t feel bad for you misplacing your vote if you lack enough awareness about out political system to understand the vocabulary,or the give-a-shit to whip your phone out, or ask someone what that word means. Or to Google which one has what middle initial.
But yeah. What you described is the strategy. It’s on their ads. ‘pick your favorite Republican, rank the other two,and blank the Democrats. It’s how Alaska wins’ (while also running ranked choice voting repeal ads, because it’s ‘dumb, dumb, dumb’ and makes voting confusing. The political ads this season are so fucked. And it’s NON STOP.