Bob Rivernider

Palin vs Peltola vs Murkowski vs Begich vs NYT vs The Corrupt Political Establishment Where Have We Seen This Before? 1) Lisa Murkowski ushers in Alaska’s convoluted, confusing, unconstitutional new Ranked Choice Voting system in order to keep her Senate seat. 2) RCV is first implemented in the 2022 Palin vs Peltola Congressional race. 3) RCV disallows primaries (because Lisa couldn’t win a Republican primary up here in Alaska), so the election is a free-for-all and a couple dozen candidates are on the ballot. 4) Alaskans vote; I receive the most votes. Alaskans assume I’ve won. But alas, the dark-money funded, nefarious RCV isn’t designed as your traditional, lawful one-man/one-vote winner-take-all system, and the scheme continues. 5) The votes are tabulated by the computerized, questionable Dominion voting machines. 6) Despite me “winning” the election, RCV forces another round of voting. And another round. And another… it’s a process of elimination until the orchestrated vote-splitting game succeeds in eliminating the candidate with the most first place votes (me) and a less-popular candidate slithers to the top. 7) Politicos choose a recognizable name (Begich, of the notorious democrat dynasty Begich family) as their preferred “Republican” candidate. Under RCV they succeed in splitting the GOP and Independent vote as their guy (Begich) refuses to drop out of the race despite me beating him in every round of voting, and despite him and the establishment obviously knowing how vote splitting works. 8) Right on que, democrats have their candidate who was siphoning votes from Peltola drop out at the last minute, Murkowski endorses the democrat (Peltola) over the Republican (me), the GOP machine flops - and in rolling over enables Peltola’s eventual “victory”. 9) I’m still in a prolonged lawsuit against the NYT for defamation in which they’ve been forced to admit wrongdoing in blaming me for a mass murder, so they don’t cover any scandal wherein I’m proven right. I’m proven right about the fundamentally flawed, unjust RCV system that belongs to the corrupt political machine, but sheep follow NYT’s leading, so nary a word from mainstream media about the original scandal. 10) In all this, the GOP-led Alaska legislature refuses to change the RCV law because dark money funds it and too many involved are typical chicken-hearted politicians, so we citizens are forced to gather tens of thousands of signatures and put it on the ballot to get rid of RCV. 11) The ballot question in legalese is purposefully confusing, as per usual, where a “yes” vote is actually a “no” vote, and our measure is defeated by the slimmest of margins. Our state government, still refusing to fix anything, makes us put it back on the ballot this election where a “yes” vote will repeal RCV. 12) And here we go again: 13) Politicos again support a recognizable, albeit confusing, name on the ballot despite that person having no high-level elected experience nor high-profile GOP association at all, but fits perfectly to siphon votes. 14) Begging the question why, this time media ringleader NYT covers the scandal, though it’s a day late and a dollar short because we’ve been voting our absentee ballots for weeks already with the names Peltola and both Sullivans included. (An aside: I, too, voted absentee in order to travel to my partner’s bedside at a Lower 48 cancer hospital. Losing my loved one last week after his valiant fight reinforces my resolve to FIGHT for what is RIGHT.) 15) Recent coverage of the screwy RCV and corrupt politicos and a weak-kneed GOP that doesn’t know how to FIGHT is too little, too late. 16) This is another “I told you so.” I ran for Congress with pure intent on winning for my state and country, but also knowing I couldn’t win under these shenanigans. I took one for the team to PROVE it. With media’s sudden feigned outrage over unethical politicking, it’s our time to prove it. - Governor Sarah Palin