Anyone have a 2 or 3 sentence version of what the Alaska election system means?
From Myst's Palin thread....
The race isn’t just a test case for Palin but also for Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system, which allows four candidates to advance from a primary election.
The special election and its primary were the first elections under the new system, in which voters rank candidates in their order of preference rather than simply choose one candidate. The last-place candidates are eliminated, with their voters’ subsequent choices then going to their next choice's tally. The process goes on for as many rounds as it takes until one candidate reaches a 50%-plus-one-vote threshold and is declared the winner.
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Which means up to 4 rounds of elections to elect a candidate.
What a mess.......
