Alaska’s Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme Was A Plot To Save Murkowski — And It Doomed Palin Too

Election officials called Alaska’s special election House race for Democrat Mary Peltola over 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin last week. Peltola’s victory, despite nearly 60 percent of votes cast for a Republican on all first-choice ballots, will mark the first time since 1973 that a Democrat will represent the state in the lower chamber. 

Whether the August contest was Palin’s race or Republica …