U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola testified before the Minnesota and Oregon legislatures on bills that would expand ranked choice voting in those states, even as conservative Republicans have launched efforts to do away with Alaska’s new voting system.
“It incentivizes candidates, while they’re campaigning, to build broad coalitions of support, and indeed in her case, she won with not just Democrat but Republican votes. That’s bipartisan coalition building,” said Jeanne Massey, director of FairVote Minnesota, explaining the group’s decision to invite Peltola to appear at the rally.Peltola told lawmakers in both Minnesota and Oregon that the decision on whether or not to adopt ranked choice voting is up to the people in those states.
Art Mathias, one of the organizers of the ballot measure group, said Monday that the group had so far raised roughly $500,000 with Palin’s help and had already gathered thousands of signatures, though he did not have an exact number. The group must gather at least 26,000 signatures by February 2024 in order for the question to appear on the 2024 ballot.
Mathias, who traveled to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland earlier this month, said the demand for repealing ranked choice voting in Alaska has been “incredible” and opponents of the system in other states are looking to its fate in Alaska as evidence of what might happen elsewhere.
Peltola told lawmakers in Minnesota and Oregon that reports of issues with Alaska’s new voting system were “negligible” and credited voter education efforts by the state Division of Elections and political parties for increasing voter understanding and participation. The Alaska Republican Party campaigned for voters to “rank the red,” but Palin failed to attract enough second-place votes to overtake Peltola in the final round of ranked choice tabulations.
“What that event said to me is we are too divided as a country,” Peltola said. “We cannot afford to see each other as enemies.”
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