It’s not a good deal and it’s spreading like poison.Īschieris: I wanted to also just talk about how recent this idea, this voting concept of ranked-choice voting is in Alaska. Mathias: So you end up with somebody that had only 10% in the primary actually winning at the other end. In the House race, 17,000 people, 6.5%, were dropped off. Exhausted, I think, is the word they used. But every time they drop somebody off, they drop out votes. Then they drop the fourth one off, they drop the third one off, until supposedly somebody gets 50%. Then there’s a very complicated counting system. So if you’re not extremely well-known, if you don’t have a lot of money, you’re not going to go any place in the race. Then the top four go through a campaign to a runoff. Our House race to replace Don Young was 48 people trying to make it through that to become the top four. It’s a very complicated system where everybody’s thrown into a jungle primary. Ranked-choice voting is a whole way that certain people want to redefine how we vote. Before we get too far into our interview, can you briefly remind our audience what ranked-choice voting is? Now, you’re part of Alaskans for Honest Elections. Art, thanks so much for joining me.Īrt Mathias: Thank you, Samantha, for having us.Īschieris: Of course. He’s also been one of the leading voices against ranked-choice voting in Alaska. He is the president and founder of Wellsprings Ministry in Anchorage, Alaska. Samantha Aschieris: Joining today’s show is Art Mathias. Mathias joins today’s episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the importance of election integrity, how big the movement around ranked-choice voting is, and what’s at stake if Alaska continues to use ranked-choice voting. It’s not a good deal and it’s spreading like poison. So, you end up with somebody that had only 10% in the primary actually winning at the other end. The ranked-choice election for the seat was won by a Democrat, Mary Peltola. He died a year ago this week on March 18, 2022. Young, a Republican who held Alaska’s sole at-large House seat from 1973 until 2022, was the longest-serving Republican in congressional history. So, if you’re not extremely well-known, if you don’t have a lot of money, you’re not going to go any place in the race,” Mathias says. “Our House race to replace Don Young was 48 people trying to make it through that to become the top four. It’s a very complicated system where everybody’s thrown into a jungle primary,” Art Mathias, president and founder of Wellsprings Ministry in Anchorage, Alaska, tells The Daily Signal. “Ranked-choice voting is a whole way that certain people want to redefine how we vote. The founder of Alaskans for Honest Elections is speaking out against ranked-choice voting, which he says is “spreading like poison.”
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