Ranked Choice Voting Fraud – A Majority Doesn’t Rule

By James Carlson

RCV Is Not A Majority Rule

Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is facing its stiffest opposition yet, with duplicate candidate names on the ballot in Alaska for the U.S. Senate race. Given 2 Dan Sullivans are running for the U.S. Senate seat in Alaska, voters who choose the current Senator Sullivan as their next Senator will face confusion and possibly vote for the wrong candidate. If neither Sullivan wins a majority, this then defaults to the RCV automatic runoffs that will potentially put one of the Sullivans out of the running. This is election fraud if/when the combined Sullivans receive a majority and RCV rejects that majority.

Dan J. Sullivan, a registered Republican from Petersburg in Southeast Alaska, says he is not trying to defraud voters but is trying to regain his name from the more famous candidate. Still, the RCV system will be tried if the 2 Sullivans obtain a majority of the vote but neither receive a clear majority.

The people of Alaska are already dealing with the fallout of RCV with the election of our other Senator, Lisa Murkowski, who won the race in RCV round 3 in 2022. I’ve already shown how the maximum number of elections needed to determine a clear majority is 2 and that RCV-3 is inherently fraudulent (see earlier blog). Now, Alaska has a more liberal Senator than her counterpart in the election and she often votes against her own political party.

Among the problems with RCV is the end of the traditional primary system where the Democrats choose their candidates for the general election and the Republicans choose theirs in separate primaries. Alaska, with RCV, now has a non-partisan primary (sic) that picks the 4 highest vote getters from both primaries. Here is the official language use to describe this from the State of Alaska Division on Elections:

·       There will be only one ballot, with all candidates regardless of political party or political group affiliation. Voters may cast a vote for one candidate in each race, regardless of voter’s political affiliation.

·       Only four candidates in each race who receive the most votes will advance to the general election. The primary election no longer determines the nominee of a political party or group.

The voter fraud of RCV will be apparent when a majority of Alaskans who are Republican are given a Democrat candidate for public office with this non-partisan primary. This potential rejection of partisan votes willprovide sufficient grounds for the end of RCV in a court of law. We vet our candidates through the primary process and that process is ended as multiple canddiates from a political party end up on the ballot for the general election. Here again, a majority rule from the poltiical/partisan primaries is dismissed.

Now, we are seeing the potential fraud with RCV where a majority of Alaskans are likely to vote for one or the other Dan Sullivan and automatic runoffs will potentially eliminate the Dan Sullivan one intended to vote for. There is no need for this kind of confusion in a genuine primary system of elections. RCV continues to provide ample opportunities where the majority vote no longer rules.