“I’m not even close to being interested in Palin. She hasn’t lived in this state in forever. I mean, she’s East Coast.”
In what may go down as the most convoluted Election Day in Alaska history, voters were asked to select one candidate in each of the respective open primaries for the U.S. House and Senate ,AdvertisementDue to the complexities of processing ranked choice ballots, which undergo multiple rounds of counting if no candidate wins an outright majority of first-choice votes, the special election results may not be finalized for weeks.
At the Alaska Zoo, possibly the quaintest polling place in Anchorage, voters on Tuesday morning shared mixed feelings on the new system. “I think it sucks,” said Earl Carson, 70, a retired commercial banker. “Why don’t you just go with the candidate you like?” Carson doesn’t trust Begich, because the candidate comes from a prominent Alaska family of Democratic politicians . Peltola was out of the question, obviously, because she herself is a Democrat.Unwilling to lend even tepid support to his two less-preferred congressional candidates, Carson ranked Palin in all three slots. “I wanted to make sure they didn’t have any confusion about who I was voting for,” he said.
Bernadette Wilson, the state director of Americans for Prosperity–Alaska, has made it her mission to teach voters how to work the new ranked choice system. Over the past few months, in videos posted to Facebook and a column for a local conservative blog, she has tried to patiently explain to voters like Carson that their second choice will only be counted if and when their first-choice candidate is eliminated for getting the least number of votes in a given round of counting.
But on the Senate side, bent on taking down a longtime incumbent, Tshibaka is taking a more aggressive stance. “Lisa lies,” Tshibaka told me, upon her arrival at the intersection. In a buffalo plaid jacket and boots with octopus-print cuffs, next to a supporter in a purple top hat and snow-white mutton chops, Tshibaka said the new voting arrangement was set up to “deceive Alaskans and manipulate our election system” in favor of Murkowski.
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