ANCHORAGE, Alaska — As the Alaska’s first ranked choice election draws near, voters and political strategists are wondering about the advantages of ranking more than one candidate.
On Aug. 16, voters will fill out a ballot that lists Democrat Mary Peltola, Republican Sarah Palin and Republican Nick Begich for U.S. House, but rather than picking just one candidate, they can rank them in order of preference. But some voters are saying they can’t bring themselves to choose more than one of the candidates who hold such different views or have such different approaches to campaigning or governing.
“I refuse to vote for people I don’t agree with,” Leslie Ridle, a former commissioner of the state Department of Administration under Gov. Bill Walker, wrote on Twitter.
