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John Whitmer's avatar

This is another excellent piece by Hill: perceptive, complete, well-written, and based on considerable experience. Many folks (Hill names a few) are spinning the recent Alaska election to suit their political ideology, but as he clearly explains Peltola's win was largely due to her solid base, appeal beyond her base, and her strong campaign. And yes, those pesky Alaskan independents played their part. RCV helped bring out Peltola's qualities but without those qualities Alaska might well be sending someone else to Washington, D.C.

And Hill's opening sentence is great! As is the opening paragraph.

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p48h93h438's avatar

By any sensible metric, Begich was the correct winner of the election. We need better voting systems like STAR, Condorcet, or Approval that actually elect the best representative of the will of the voters.

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