Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and South Carolina all held primaries yesterday. Miraculously — miraculously in light of the California experience — the results are in! RealClearPolitics has compiled them here.
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Trump sure knows how to antagonize the Democrats, here on two election related issues.
DHS states that these provisions allow for the removal of illegal aliens if they illegally participate in our elections. No criminal conviction is required for their removal.
The proposed rules lay out new conditions that states would have to meet to send ballots through the mail, including giving the agency lists of all voters set to receive mail ballots.
The Trump administration cleared an initial legal hurdle last month, when a federal judge in Washington, DC, who is overseeing one set of the cases, declined to block Trump’s executive order, allowing the Postal Service to begin implementing it.
The Democratic Party groups are asking an appeals court to speed up its review of that decision, warning that voters around the country could be disenfranchised in this year’s midterm elections if the proposal is not blocked.
I see giving their voter rolls to the Feds for verification never crossed their minds as a way to comply with the post office’s requirements under the new rules.
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More ranked choice voting hi-jinx. This would not have occurred in a traditional plurality system because each party controls who their candidates are on the ballot.
There is an interesting controversy in Alaska where an election official just disqualified a candidate over his name. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is in what is considered a close race with Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola. The seat is viewed as critical to the Democrats’ retaking power. The race was thrown into disarray when a retired teacher named Dan Sullivan, who had no connection to the GOP but did have connections to Democratic operatives, got on the ballot. The alleged dirty trick by Democratic and Peltola supporters would have split Sullivan’s vote through sheer confusion. Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher disqualified Dan J. Sullivan, putting an end to it this week.
The suspected dirty trick comes at a time when Democratic candidates and pundits are calling for winning back power “by any means necessary.”
It could create an interesting appeal if teacher Sullivan claims that this is just a colossal coincidence or that he has a right to be a vehicle for electoral confusion.
Under Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, Dan J. Sullivan could have advanced to the general election among the top four vote-getters — rigging the result for Peltola.
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Regardless of the voting system, an open primary takes away party control. It has nothing to do with ranked choice.
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DC looking like they’ll join NYC in being run into the ground by a new socialist mayor.
From this good cartoonist who’s writing again.
What is your source for the definition of ranked choice voting? You keep writing that a system is not ranked choice voting but do not say why.
my definition is that a voting system designed to confuse and bamboozle the voters is ranked choice. For example, the Alaska system that uber-rino Murkowski uses to get elected is called ranked choice so it is. Similarly the Maine system that.independent but Caucuses with Democrats Angus King and Democrat Jared Golden use to get elected is also called ranked choice so be it.
The California jungle primary is another variant of ranked choice by my definition.
Seriously, what is my source? That’s your response?!?!?You are so blinded by rage you’ve lost all concept of reason.
I said that this particular issue is due to having an open primary. In an open primary, Democrats have a say in who the Republican candidates are. It has nothing to do with using ranked choice.
Also in this particular issue, the problem is two candidates with the same name - one a serious Republican, the other a Democratic shill. The confusion is with people wanting to vote for the Republican who accidentally vote for the other Johnson, taking votes away from the serious candidate. This is going to be the result regardless of the voting system being used. It also has nothing to do with ranked choice.
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Did you really think that the word “ranked” in “Ranked Choice Voting” stands for the modern slang urbandictionary definition of the word rank, meaming stinky, gross, or ugly?
As opposed to a standard dictionary definition, meaning relative standing or position, orderly arrangement, or the order according to some statistical characteristic ???
Aaahahaha.
You can find the definition of RCV by googling it. Here’s a simple one: https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV) and a more complex one with examples: Ranked voting - Wikipedia. I suggest you do some reading before posting anything else about the subject.
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A jungle primary is not a variant of ranked choice. Your definition is wrong. By the actual definition, Ranked Choice / Instant Runoff requires redistribution of the votes for eliminated (least popular) candidates, allowing only the most popular candidates to advance. In California, only those who received the most votes in a single round get to advance. There is no instant runoff. The top two are not necessarily the most popular. They might be, but there’s no way to know without actually doing the runoff.
It’s what happens when algorithms bury you ass-deep in extremist propaganda.
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Maine, the other state in addition to Alaska that claims they use ranked choice voting, whatever that means, is having trouble counting the votes. This is sure to eliminate whatever confidence the voters have in the validity of the election.
https://themainemonitor.org/maine-never-seen-ranked-choice-primary-like-this/
Maine has never seen a ranked-choice primary like this one
For the first time ever, Maine has seen three statewide or congressional primary races move on to ranked-choice voting tabulation. The previous record was two in 2018.
While primary voting ended on Tuesday, June 9, the ranked-choice process for these three races has stretched into this week. In an Augusta conference room, staff from the Maine secretary of state’s office have worked to compile election results from around the state and run the ranked-choice tabulation.
Read the article to see the how complex, and therefore subject to cheating, the vote count process is. As an example, during the process, law-enforcement officers are required to transport computer drives with election data.
The article was updated on June 17 and they still do not have the final results for the vote on June 9.
The actual definition dictates that the ranked choice election replaces both the primary AND the general election - it is both steps combined into one vote. That is the biggest [valid] selling point for ranked choice.
The fact so many implementations of this still use a separate primary is an indictment of the morons running the elections, not the ranked choice system.
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So you are finally admitting that you are just railing on ranked choice without bothering to understand what it is nor how it actually works?
I’d be pretty certain that any delay is because the powers that be arent liking where the results are leaning. And you do realize that securing the election data is not “complexity”, it is rather common election security?
“Ranked choice primary” is a phrase that shouldnt exist.
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I go by what the state authorities say. Both Alaska and Maine say they have ranked choice voting as do local governments in other left leaning states.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/18/us-news/fbi-agents-probe-las-skid-row-in-voter-fraud-investigation/
FBI agents descend on Skid Row in massive voter fraud probe after stunning claims of election bribery
The FBI is now investigating voter fraud in Los Angeles.
Federal agents descended on the streets of Skid Row in downtown LA Thursday following allegations that the homeless had been paid to vote in the June 2 primary.
About 20 agents swooped in on the notoriously blighted area after homeless people staying there claimed they’d been bribed with cash to sign multiple registration forms, forge signatures, and fill out voter information for the mayoral and gubernatorial primaries.
The California Post looked on as plainclothes agents questioned Skid Row residents, asking them if they were paid to vote or were aware of others who were approached with the offer.
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So again, you’re finally admitting you have been railing on and on against it without bothering to actually understand what it is and how it works?
Election deniers of the Far Right, the NYT South American edition.
Trump-Backed Outsider Appears to Win Colombian Presidential Race
Here’s the shifts on the last few years , colors backwards from US tho (right=blue)
Coincidence?
7 Latin American elections since USAID was defunded:
Chile: “far-right” Kast won
Bolivia: “far-right” Paz won
Peru: “far-right” Fujimori won
Ecuador: “far-right” Noboa won
Honduras: “far-right” Asfura won
Colombia: “far-right” Espriella won
Costa Rica: “far-right” Fernandez won
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Probably not due to the defunding of USAID but instead the voters’ realization the economy works better with more pro-business policies.
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Late ballots are allowed under state law, as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day.
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Supreme Court allows unlimited birthright citizenship. The founding fathers wanted anchor babies and birth tourism, clearly.
Discussing the arguments and dissents.
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