Sen. Tom Cotton butthurt over Sarah Palin's election loss,

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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After Sarah Palin's election loss, Sen. Tom Cotton calls ranked-choice voting 'a scam'

WASHINGTON — After Democrat Mary Peltola defeated Sarah Palin in Alaska's special election Wednesday, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., discredited the voting system used by Alaska voters that they chose to implement in their state.

Cotton tweeted that Alaska's new ranked-choice voting system "is a scam to rig elections," casting doubt on the outcome of the process to fill the seat of late GOP Rep. Don Young.

"60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat 'won,'" Cotton said in a separate tweet.

This is the first time Alaskans used the ranked-choice voting system after voting to adopt it in 2020.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sarah-palins-election-loss-sen-142451494.html

“Scam to rig elections”: Tom Cotton fumes over Sarah Palin loss as GOP fans cry “stolen election”

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., fumed over Alaska's new voter-approved voting system after Democrat Mary Peltola defeated former Republican Gov. Sarah Palin in a special U.S. House election decided by ranked-choice voting.

Peltola, a former state representative, became the first Alaska Native elected to Congress on Wednesday after edging out Palin 51.5% to 48.5% in a special election to replace the late Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska. It was the state's first time using a ranked-choice voting system approved by voters in 2020. Under the rules, which are also used in New York City and other areas, voters can rank candidates in order of preference. If no one reaches 50% of the vote, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are reallocated. The process continues until someone reaches a majority of the votes.

Peltola led among first-preference choices with 38% of first-place votes and overtook Palin as votes backing fellow Republican Nick Begich were reallocated. Peltola was aided by a "huge exhaustion rate" among Begich voters, only half of whom ranked Palin as their second choice while more than 20% did not rank anyone at all, election analyst Dave Wasserman noted on Twitter.

"In the end, Palin was so disliked [the election] wasn't even that close," he wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scam-to-rig-elections-tom-cotton-fumes-over-sarah-palin-loss-as-gop-fans-cry-stolen-election/ar-AA11mhW8

So Cottonmouth do you support ending the electoral college and electing presidents by popular majority? If not STFU.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Cotton, you are an "asshole" and you should "STFU". Got it?

[dchill]

2. Tom Cotton, butthurt, adds to the elation I feel!

[Cha]

13. lol .. yeah Cotton Whining

about an election is Good for our Democracy.

Fucking Traitor

[msongs]

3. the dem won most votes in round one. she should be in based on that then nt

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. You got 4 years of your fascist god-king thanks to Jill Stein being on the ballot

There's no law that says every election must only be between 1 Dem and one GQP candidate. The PARTY doesn't win, the PERSON wins. Duh.

So how about you shut the fuck up?

[iscooterliberally]

5. This is really serious folks.

Considering that Tom Cotton's entire body is merely a life support system for his butthole, this really has to cause him much suffering.

[lunatica]

17. LOL!

[niyad]

24. you nearly owed me a keyboard.

[iscooterliberally]

28. I'll send over the cleaning crew...

v

[niyad]

29. awwwwww. Your cleaning crew is welcome any time!

[crickets]

31. DUzy of the day! 😆

[Chainfire]

6. Lostrigged

[Ocelot II]

7. States' rights, Cottonmouth. States get to determine their own election procedures.

Alaska opted for ranked-choice voting, which they had every right to do. RCV allows voters to eliminate the least popular candidates, and Palin was one of them. We have it for my city's elections and so far it seems to be working as well as any other method.

[bif]

8. So once again, when Republicans win, they win. And when they lose,

they actually won because the other side cheated. I get so tired of their shit!

[Mike Nelson]

9. Ha-ha!

... just "Tom Cotton butthurt over Sarah Palin..." conjures up the imagination...

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I think they have cried wolf one too many times

Over use has caused ot to lose affect

[The Unmitigated Gall]

11. Sore Loser-man Tom's sore butt makes me happy.

[Cracklin Charlie]

12. All voting is a scam to these knuckleheads.

They want their voters to think everything is a scam. Won’t that come back to bite them later?

[CentralMass]

14. I'm not a fan of ranked voting but tje system applied to all the candidates.

[Montauk6]

15. In that first sentence, you could put the period after "system" and delete the rest.

That sums up the mentality of the QOPers (wow, remember back when the term was "freeper"?)

[Samrob]

16. Did they have a "thingy" go'in on? nt

[mgardener]

18. He forgot to mention that ranked voting

Was voted on by the Alaskan people.
It was their choice.
"New Election System. In the 2020 General Election, voters approved an initiative to establish a Nonpartisan Pick One Primary Election system and a Ranked Choice ."

[mgardener]

19. He forgot to mention that ranked voting

Was voted on by the Alaskan people.
It was their choice.
"New Election System. In the 2020 General Election, voters approved an initiative to establish a Nonpartisan Pick One Primary Election system and a Ranked Choice ."

[GreenWave]

20. The 60% is their lower torso,

[Emile]

21. Senator, the last two republican presidents won with less votes too.

Just sayn

[Shermann]

23. Yeah, but but those were legitimate because reasons! nt

[markie]

22. he can and should

shut the fuck up no matter

[TlalocW]

25. Percentages are fun

Yep, 60% voted for a republican. However, 68% voted for NOT PALIN.

[kaotikross]

26. A repub whining

because some tricky machinations have been used so the minority candidate wins? Cry me a river.

[DFW]

27. How is the D/R proportion in NC and PA? What is their representational proportion in the House?

Sen. Cotton should check that out and THEN start whining to us about Alaska, whose Republicans, after all, devised their system. He should admit that he was just looking forward to feeding Palin some lines, and hearing her flub them on the House floor. Weren't you, Tom?

Or, maybe he thought that Greene and Boebert weren't enough, because stooges should always come in threes?

[Mr. Sparkle]

30. Now he knows how we feel about the electoral college!

[Snackshack]

32. Another GOPer

The Dems let off easy. Cotton should have been penalized heavily or at least censured for his brazen transgression into foreign policy with his treasonous letter to Iran, undercutting President Obama when he was negotiating with Iran on a nuclear agreement.

[LakeArenal]

33. I cry WOLF. WOLF WOLF!!!!!

Unless Republicans win.

[maxrandb]

34. Relax Tom

you still have Boebert and Greene for the Coyote Ugly dance club.

[TomSlick]

35. Let me see if I have this straight.

Is our boy Tom unhappy because the people of Alaska run their elections they way they want? If so, how would Tom feel about the people of Alaska dictating the conduct of elections in Arkansas?