Too Many Questions 2024 Election Needs a Full Audit
Contributed by Lawrence D. Wood
The Dunleavy Administration and the Legislature have failed to ensure the integrity and sanctity of Alaska’s electoral process by preventing the overwhelming influence of Outside money in this election. The 2024 Alaska election has too many questions to be allowed to stand without a thorough forensic audit.
The Alaska Republican Party’s request for a recount of the vote for Proposition 2 is a good first move. Unfortunately, the move to limit the audit to just Prop 2 was dropping the round short.
To ensure the integrity of this election and future elections, LTGOV Nancy Dahlstrom should immediately order a full forensic audit with a hand recount of every vote cast for every race with more than two candidates where RCV’s vote allocation by computer algorithm determined the outcome. The vote for the two initiatives in this election should also be part of that audit. The audit needs to include an examination of the software used.
A full and public report of the audit and software manipulation of the vote should be published in the media in this state and on the Division of Election’s website as a PDF with full public disclosure and access.
Further, there were too many absentee ballots coming in post-election in numbers that seemed too great for Alaska’s voting population. Therefore, a full forensic audit of this election should include an examination of each absentee ballot with verification of signatures, addresses and the voter’s voter registration.
There were also too many delays in reporting of vote tallies from the Bush and other heavily Democrat precincts.
RCV was never about accountability or transparency, RCV was never about “choice”.
To aid in understanding how this election compares with previous elections, the Division of Elections should post the total absentee ballots and the in-persona ballot counts for the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections with the 2024 election to compare with as a bar graph and also showing the number of registered voters and the population for those years on the state website.
There is also the question as to whether not it is even possible to audit an RCV system and reach a reliably accurate vote tally, given that RCV uses an obscure computer algorithm that determines the outcome by apportioning votes resulting from the elimination of candidates.
There is no transparency under RCV. The first elimination of candidates comes in the initial iteration by the algorithm thereby altering the final outcome versus that of the pre-RCV elections by one person one vote where the outcome for each race was determined by a simple majority.
The reality is, that the final determination of a race under RCV is not >50% of the vote in each race as touted in the propaganda. The final outcome under RCV is the same simple majority that determined our elected office races just as it was prior to 2020. Only under RCV the final outcome comes 15 days after the election magically resulting from an algorithm which counts and reapportions and ‘weights’ one’s vote without one’s interaction or knowledge.
Further, the effect of implementing RCV has been to change the outcome of voting over the one person one vote system, which is the true purpose of RCV. This has been noted in those jurisdictions where it has been implemented. Red states and blue states vote outcomes turn purple.
Our voting system prior to 2022 gave us the outcome of an election within 24 hours of voting. Ballot counting, not computer algorithm voodoo determined the outcome.
Any use of computer software increases the opportunity manipulation and election fraud.
Let’s face it, the more time it takes to determine the outcome of an election, the more opportunity for manipulation of the process and the greater the prospect and opportunity for cheating. RCV is a barn door in terms of opportunity for fraud.
RCV is a violation of one’s 1st Amendment right of association and lacks full disclosure. The Legislature has the authority pursuant to Article V §3 and Art. XI §6 to overturn a voter initiative after two years, and to amend the initiative any time post passage. RCV’s passage was in 2020.
It should be noted that both No to Proposition 2 and Proposition 1 campaigns were funded by the very Outside influence and dark money that RCV was supposed to prevent. Both campaigns have Senator Lisa Murkowski’s and George Soro’s evil intent written all over them.
Therefore, to ensure integrity and the legitimacy of the 2024 vote in Alaska, Governor Michael J. Dunleavy and LTGOV Nancy Dahlstrom need to act to investigate the money and motivations behind Prop 1 and NO on 2, and to fully audit this election.