Monday 15 August 2022 08:01 PM How anti-Trump Sen. Murkowski's staffers pushed to change Alaska's primary to ... trends now
Members of Senator Lisa Murkowski's campaign worked behind the scenes to get ranked-choice voting passed in Alaska in an effort to give progressives an advantage and help increase the moderate Republican's chances of victory, secretly recorded conversations reveal.
A coordinator for Mukrowski's reelection campaign told an individual reporting undercover for Project Veritas Action that the ranked-choice voting measure is 'key' to her potentially winning in the 2022 midterm election.
The new voting system in Alaska, known as Ballot Measure 2, gives voters the top four candidates to rank from their most preferred candidate to least in the open party competition.
Murkowksi's campaign staffers noted that this form of voting would be beneficial for their candidate because Democrats and Republicans would likely put her as their second choice when casting their ballots.
If no candidate wins a majority of first-preference rankings outright, the candidate with the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated and the first-preference choices for that candidate are dropped, creating a new ranking with their second-choice now in the first position.
A new undercover Project Veritas Action report shows members of Senator Lisa Murkowski's reelection campaign team explaining they helped push for passage of ranked-choice voting in Alaska behind the scenes. Pictured: Emma Ashlock, a campaign coordinator for Murkowski, was caught on camera when unknowingly speaking to a Project Veritas Action reporter saying 'While we were working on Ballot Measure 2 and voting for Ballot Measure 2, we had Senator Murkowski in mind the whole time'
Josiah Nash (pictured), another campaign coordinator, noted Murkowski 'stayed quiet' on the topic 'and honestly it was probably best she stayed quiet on that', but said she 'supports it'
Emma Ashlock, a campaign coordinator for Murkowski, was caught on camera when unknowingly speaking to a Project Veritas Action reporter saying staffers with the campaign worked behind the scenes to get the measure on the ballot and ultimately passed.
'While we were working on Ballot Measure 2 and voting for Ballot Measure 2, we had Senator Murkowski in mind the whole time,' she said.
Shea Siegert, the Murkowski campaign communications director, wouldn't confirm if the voting system specifically benefits his boss, but said
