And explaining that *ranked choice makes this stunt completely pointless.* Instead, they have a new article today suggesting this is a reason ranked choice is bad. Ranked choice solves this “problem,” it doesn’t exacerbate it!
November 1, 2026 at 4:07 PM
And explaining that *ranked choice makes this stunt completely pointless.* Instead, they have a new article today suggesting this is a reason ranked choice is bad. Ranked choice solves this “problem,” it doesn’t exacerbate it!
Also interesting that the Times never addresses the fact that Alaska's ranked-choice voting makes this kind of ballot-stacking basically pointless.
i finally got to read this and wow is it a steaming pile of crap.
there is one constant in everything the NYT does and it’s this attitude of “we are smarter than you and you are simply too stupid to understand our choices.”
there is one constant in everything the NYT does and it’s this attitude of “we are smarter than you and you are simply too stupid to understand our choices.”
Inside the Times’s Decisions on the Alaska Senate Race Story
Our investigation found that Democratic operatives were behind a plan to bring a potential spoiler into the Senate race.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Also interesting that the Times never addresses the fact that Alaska's ranked-choice voting makes this kind of ballot-stacking basically pointless.
New Mexico football is ranked for the first time ever in the 90-year history of the AP Poll.
November 1, 2026 at 7:13 PM
New Mexico football is ranked for the first time ever in the 90-year history of the AP Poll.
Ranked-choice voting is the system that now spares Alaska voters from the risk of throwing their votes away despite the state’s tradition of ballot-stacking chicanery
November 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Ranked-choice voting is the system that now spares Alaska voters from the risk of throwing their votes away despite the state’s tradition of ballot-stacking chicanery
Talk to your kids about ranked New Mexico!
New Mexico football is ranked for the first time ever in the 90-year history of the AP Poll.
November 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Talk to your kids about ranked New Mexico!
this is particularly remarkable for its nonsense and shows how much the coverage is driven by whatever two things Trump’s dying brain associates. Why would this “bolster critics“ of ranked choice? Ranked choice is the solution! If this story means anything it shows the need for ranked choice.
November 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM
this is particularly remarkable for its nonsense and shows how much the coverage is driven by whatever two things Trump’s dying brain associates. Why would this “bolster critics“ of ranked choice? Ranked choice is the solution! If this story means anything it shows the need for ranked choice.
Words not found in this article include "ranked" and "choice"
November 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Words not found in this article include "ranked" and "choice"
"Ranked: Countries With the Most Debt Per Person" www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/ranked-co...
November 1, 2026 at 3:53 PM
"Ranked: Countries With the Most Debt Per Person" www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/ranked-co...
Yeah it’s bizarre. You’d have to not know how ranked choice works to write this article
November 1, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Yeah it’s bizarre. You’d have to not know how ranked choice works to write this article
ranked choice voting would be nice
November 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
ranked choice voting would be nice
I FIGURED IT OUT. The NYT hates ranked choice voting because it got Mamdani elected mayor and they are building a case to destroy it in NYC using Alaska as a proxy
The Times is straight-up boasting about how it has pushed a false premise so aggressively that people are helpless to debunk it with the facts
November 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I FIGURED IT OUT. The NYT hates ranked choice voting because it got Mamdani elected mayor and they are building a case to destroy it in NYC using Alaska as a proxy
While the NYT writes dozen stories on ranked choice election in Alaska …
Video shows ICE agent pointing handgun in face of North Hollywood bystander
Video shows ICE agent pointing handgun in face of North Hollywood bystander
Video shows ICE agents detaining a man in North Hollywood, and then pointing a handgun directly in the face of an apparently unarmed bystander during a tense encounter.
www.latimes.com
October 31, 2026 at 4:13 PM
While the NYT writes dozen stories on ranked choice election in Alaska …
No. Ranked Choice Voting.
November 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
No. Ranked Choice Voting.
Alaska has ranked choice voting too which makes it even dumber
October 31, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Alaska has ranked choice voting too which makes it even dumber
Indiana's 5th congressional district:
*Trump won it by 17 points
*Ranked "Lean Republican" by Cook Political Report
Early signs are there's a pretty big swing there. Encouraging.
*Trump won it by 17 points
*Ranked "Lean Republican" by Cook Political Report
Early signs are there's a pretty big swing there. Encouraging.
November 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Indiana's 5th congressional district:
*Trump won it by 17 points
*Ranked "Lean Republican" by Cook Political Report
Early signs are there's a pretty big swing there. Encouraging.
*Trump won it by 17 points
*Ranked "Lean Republican" by Cook Political Report
Early signs are there's a pretty big swing there. Encouraging.
Alaskas ranked choice system makes the entire argument moot anyway.
October 31, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Alaskas ranked choice system makes the entire argument moot anyway.
Bored on the tube so have officially ranked my favourite lines
November 1, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bored on the tube so have officially ranked my favourite lines
55% of voters ranked “improved sniper/shooter capability on the National Mall” as their top issue.
Trump: "We're going for final approval of the triumphal arch/military complex ... it's going to have tremendous drone capability. I would say sniper or shooter capability"
November 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
55% of voters ranked “improved sniper/shooter capability on the National Mall” as their top issue.
Also a major but rarely-addressed barrier to ranked voting.
it's really not helpful to have elected judges. no one knows who they are.
americans vote for too many offices in general. it's not actually accountability if you have no info.
americans vote for too many offices in general. it's not actually accountability if you have no info.
November 3, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Also a major but rarely-addressed barrier to ranked voting.
Could voter confusion over the Dans Sullivan in Alaska make a difference? Test it and see.
@votebeat.org built an interactive tool that lets you test different vote margins and ranked-choice scenarios to see when the second Sullivan could make a difference.
www.votebeat.org/national/202...
@votebeat.org built an interactive tool that lets you test different vote margins and ranked-choice scenarios to see when the second Sullivan could make a difference.
www.votebeat.org/national/202...
Alaska’s U.S. Senate race has a two-Dan problem. Despite much ado, experts say that’s unlikely to matter.
Alaska’s unusual ranked choice voting system could help ensure that voter confusion over two Dan Sullivans running for U.S. Senate doesn’t impact final results.
www.votebeat.org
November 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Could voter confusion over the Dans Sullivan in Alaska make a difference? Test it and see.
@votebeat.org built an interactive tool that lets you test different vote margins and ranked-choice scenarios to see when the second Sullivan could make a difference.
www.votebeat.org/national/202...
@votebeat.org built an interactive tool that lets you test different vote margins and ranked-choice scenarios to see when the second Sullivan could make a difference.
www.votebeat.org/national/202...
Further proof we just live in the nonsense world. Ranked choice voting solves the problem the NYT and Republicans are professing to care SO MUCH about, but because they also have prior opposition to ranked choice voting they're pretending the opposite, incoherently and clownishly
It takes halfway through the article for them to acknowledge that this makes no sense, since RCV means that confused voters who put the wrong Sullivan in position 1 will still end up voting for the correct Sullivan in position 2.
www.nytimes.com/2026/11/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/11/01/u...
Did the Peltola Campaign Seal the Fate of Alaska’s Ranked Choice Vote?
Beyond hotly contested Senate and governor’s races, Alaskans will decide Tuesday whether to scrap the state’s unique ballot. The campaign of Mary Peltola may have bolstered critics of the system.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Further proof we just live in the nonsense world. Ranked choice voting solves the problem the NYT and Republicans are professing to care SO MUCH about, but because they also have prior opposition to ranked choice voting they're pretending the opposite, incoherently and clownishly
The Vice President doesn't understand how ranked choice voting works. He also appears to hate the electoral college.
JD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win...The fact it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way"
October 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
The Vice President doesn't understand how ranked choice voting works. He also appears to hate the electoral college.
Ranked-choice voting actually makes the double-Sullivan ploy ineffective. If anyone is confused, they vote for both. And unless Peltola gets over 50%, they get combined. So why run this deceptive article? Guess.
NYT is going all out in its effort to promote fascism, having yet another piece on the Dems' Dan Sullivan ballot effort in Alaska. This time with a literally 100% nonsense piece on ranked-choice voting www.nytimes.com/2026/11/01/u...
Did the Peltola Campaign Seal the Fate of Alaska’s Ranked Choice Vote?
Beyond hotly contested Senate and governor’s races, Alaskans will decide Tuesday whether to scrap the state’s unique ballot. The campaign of Mary Peltola may have bolstered critics of the system.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ranked-choice voting actually makes the double-Sullivan ploy ineffective. If anyone is confused, they vote for both. And unless Peltola gets over 50%, they get combined. So why run this deceptive article? Guess.
Ranked-choice voting in Alaska could shape a key 2026 race, amid a US lawsuit involving two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
What is ranked-choice voting and how does it work in US elections?
Ranked-choice voting in Alaska could shape a key 2026 race, amid a US lawsuit involving two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
www.aljazeera.com
October 31, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Ranked-choice voting in Alaska could shape a key 2026 race, amid a US lawsuit involving two candidates named Dan Sullivan.
Reading what they've written, I'm now convinced that no-one at the Times actually understands how ranked choice voting works.
November 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Reading what they've written, I'm now convinced that no-one at the Times actually understands how ranked choice voting works.