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And we are back on the KVNT Morning Drive, heard right here on 1020 AM, 92.5 FM, 104.5 FM, and all around the world at 1020KVNT.com. You can join in on the conversation now by calling 907-357-5868. 907-357-5868. Now, here's today's host.  Good morning. Thank you for sticking with us. We have our guest here and we're going over a lot of the details of rank choice voting and the petition that was decided on by the court. Hey, before we get going back into the details, can you explain to me or maybe the listeners what dark money means? What does that mean? Sure. I'm going to do another follow up with that and then also talk about like a breakdown rank choice voting just kind of in simple terms. But  So dark money is, you know, my interpretation of dark money is money that's not sourced from the state of Alaska. And, you know, it goes to nonprofits or groups that essentially bury their donors' money through this nonprofit. And so this group called 1630 Fund, which the Alaskans for Better Elections group, who is the promoter of ranked choice voting, the original ballot measure for ranked choice voting was called Alaskans for Better Elections.  And the organization behind it raises millions of dollars to come to Alaska and force the system down Alaskans' throats. And that's what happened. And so Scott Campbell wrote the bill, and then they used that initiative to push it through. Can I ask a question real quick? I'm sorry, I don't mean to interrupt. So you mean to tell me that they were –  threatening people that if this didn't happen, that dark money would flood into the state, but they used dark money to flood into the state to get it passed. That's right.  Okay, I just want to be very clear on that. Yeah, no, absolutely. That's 100% true. And so the 1630 Fund is actually tied to a foreign national. He's not even a U.S. citizen. He's out of Wyoming. He's a Swiss billionaire. His name is Hans-Jorg Weiss. It's W-Y-S-S. And Hans-Jorg, so it's H-A-N-J-O-R-G. And so Swiss billionaire. He's donated over $500 million to a group called 1630 Funds.  And over $240 million of that money has been used for ballot initiatives across the country. And there's a rule where foreign nationals are not allowed to donate to candidates in the United States for elections. That's against the rules. But they can donate to ballot measures. And so that's a loophole in the system that very few people are aware of. I didn't know that loophole existed.  And so there's only one state in the country so far that's actually worked to get rid of that loophole, and that's Ohio. And as soon as they did, they did. They got it signed by the governor to ban foreign national money from ballot initiatives. Mark Elias, who's the big, famous Democrat attorney, immediately, very similar to Scott Kendall, just paid a lot more and worked. He probably knows them. I wouldn't be surprised if they're friends.  But the point is, he does the exact same thing. He was a DNC's attorney. He attacks people regularly. Anytime someone tries to pass election integrity law, he goes and files a lawsuit against it. And he loses all the time, just like Kendall. So it's kind of poetic. But the point is, like,  You know, that guy, his intent is to get rid of election integrity. You know, that's the intent of that organization. Democracy Docket is his new organization. So he was actually fired by the Democratic National Committee for being too extreme. So he's an attorney that's too extreme for the DNC. And so he's out there just creating havoc. And he's one of those funded guys that's paid for by Soros and friends. Is havoc another word, a soft word for sedition?  You could call it that. It's more so like being taken over, because if you look at where the systems come from, rank choice voting, single transferable vote, instant runoff voting, approval voting, these all come from Europe. They're all European voting systems. And, you know, I've done the research into them. I've written a couple of books on these topics now, and I've done tons of presentations in front of like I met Ron DeSantis and shook his hand and  and talked about ranked choice and thanked him for being the first governor in the country to ban it. You know, that was why he was running for president. And I met, I've done shared a stage with U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, talked to him about the same thing because there's a group called Arabella Advisors, and it shocked me because, like, you know, I went and talked about it on stage there in Fairbanks, and Dan Sullivan was there, and, like, you know, I got off the stage, and he comes up, talked to me afterwards. He's like, I've never heard of Arabella. I was like, what? That's not good. That's not logical. Yeah, and it took,  So Arabella Advisors is out of Washington, D.C. So if anyone's going to know about it, I think he would. They rake in $1.6 billion a year. That's more than the RNC and the DNC combined. And they throw that money into left-wing causes exclusively. There's a book called Arabella on Amazon written by the Capital Research Center guy. It is an amazing book, blows your brain, and it's scary because we actually have nothing on the right.  That's equivalent to what, and then the only network that's similar is the Kosh Network, which is the Americans for Prosperity Network.  And it's not even nowhere near the size. And they actually, the caution network have a program with George Soros that they're working on. And so they're not even fully right wing either. And so we don't have anything on the right to counter this just giant gorilla. And not only do they, of course, they don't just fund ballot initiatives. They also fund media. So like Alaskan, the Alaska beacon was also like, has connections to this, to the 1630 fund and the,  And this whole little network of George Soros, Arabella Media. And so what they do is they use the media to essentially push their narratives. And so now we have media working alongside foreign nationals. And so what they call them is Arabella Advisors pop-up groups.  And so these pop-up groups like Alaskans for Better Elections, for instance, or down in Arizona, Voter Choice Arizona, or in Idaho, Open Primaries Idaho, or et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And there's 500 of them, 500 pop-up groups that Arabella Advisors has. And they funnel that $1.6 billion, and they just kind of trade money back and forth between all their little non-profits.  And they raised money from, like, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook and Meta. And then the Howard York Vice guy. That's a foreign national money as well. And so all this money came to Alaska under the guise of getting rid of dark money. And so, of course, it sounds great. The advertising is fantastic. Let's get rid of dark money. Everybody wants to do that. But ultimately it was funded with 99% dark money.  Yeah, it was a cruel joke. I think he probably laughed about it. He thought Alaskans were really stupid that we did that and stuff. I don't look at it like that. I think he was a deceptive asshole. Sorry for the language, but it's true. You can't go to write a language, write a bill. I've written a bill. I wrote the repeal. And so you can't write a bill and intentionally deceptive and then push it through the state process and then the state ultimately...  challenge you all the way to supreme court you think he would have like realized well i need to go back to the drawing board he didn't you know and and so because he knew that if he just tried to run with just rank choice and jungle primary no one was going to vote on it and so it passed by less than half a percent and like i said the day that um we we voted was november 7th i believe  And then, you know, it was 16 days later when we got the results. I think it was the 23rd, I believe, or 23rd or 24th. And I turned our initiative in to the state for approval on the day we were supposed to get the ranked choice voting results. And so before I even knew what the results were, I had already submitted my bill to repeal ranked choice voting. And it was all 100 signatures and it was sent to the lieutenant governor. And, you know, I made some mistakes because,  And APOC reporting, which is the political office stuff, because I didn't know the timeline started then. I thought it started whenever I got the approval. And so I had already messed up with the APOC department right off the bat because I reached out to him, and at no point in time did APOC say that your time for reporting starts the moment you apply, not the moment you actually get approved. And so that left us up for getting in trouble and ultimately had fines because of part of that. And that wasn't cool.  But ultimately, we got it approved by the lieutenant governor. Now, at that point, we had the petitions. And so I'm going to go back a little bit and discuss ranked choice voting. And so we have jungle primary and ranked choice. We left what we had previously was a system we had in the United States for over 200 years from like 1778, I believe. And so it's called plurality voting or first past the post voting.  and people you know just pick one person and vote for that person and that's it it's very simple so i've labeled this as two systems you have multiple choice voting where you can select more than one candidate per race and you have single single choice voting which is our traditional system and i like that system better i don't think you should be able to pick more than one person per race and i believe that the that  um, elderly minorities and a lot of people that speak English or second language and, you know, et cetera, new voters are going to be much more likely to use the single choice, pick one choice easier than they will be able to pick a multiple choice system. And so that's, that's that, you know, breaking it down simply like that. So we have jungle primary now in Alaska with, and it's not called open primary, it's called jungle primary. 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Phil, pick up where you were before on ranked choice voting, sir. Yep. So jungle primary. So I was explaining that we went from a closed system, closed primary to a jungle primary. So closed primary means you have each one of the parties gets to have their own primary.  And then so Republicans get to vote Republicans, and Democrats get to vote Democrats, and Libertarians can vote for Libertarians, Independents, etc. I like that system. It's a good system. It allows people to get behind one person. And then, in my opinion, it increases civility because  You don't have you don't have Republicans attacking Republicans, you know, the whole time. And that's what happened in 2022. And, you know, one of the claims that ranked choice voting has is more civil. And I didn't see that. And neither there's a study by MIT in Maine showing that it's not actually more civil. It's more it's more divisive. And so ranked choice voting is not more civil.  And so, you know, with a jungle primary, so that is where you have anybody can run. If you're a Democrat, you can run as a Republican. If you're a Republican, you can run as a Democrat. That's actually happening now. We have a Democrat up in Fairbanks that's running as a Republican.  And then there's an independent running as a Democrat in another district. And so it doesn't matter now. And there's no vetting process, so that's not good. Jungle primaries, you select one person. And then on the ranked choice, you rank them. And so you go one, two, three, four. That's our top four system. You can select just one person. You can select two people. You can select three people. You can select four people. And so my concerns in this are the people that are selecting just one person are  Or, you know, there's people that are called they overvote or undervote. And so these are terms that have to do with like so probably no one on this call is going to know what this is called exhausted ballots. And so what that has to do with is whenever if you say you only select one person on the ballot and that person that it'll say it's Al Gross and like the House race.  If he's removed from the count, then that vote doesn't count anymore, and your vote is thrown out of the election. The denominator of the election has changed with your vote being removed. So that's how they ultimately gave Mary and Lisa Murkowski over 50%. Neither one of them actually got 50%. They actually removed ballots from the election. One of them was like 6%. One of them was almost 7%. They got 50% of the scraps.  Yeah, exactly. And that can get crazy. So there was an article in Denver Post because they're pushing ranked choice in Denver, they're pushing in Nevada, they're pushing in Arizona, they're pushing in Oregon, they're pushing in Idaho and Colorado all this year. But the good news is 10 states have banned ranked choice voting, and I've consulted with a lot of those states on those bans. And so two years ago we had zero states banned it, and only one state used it.  Now we have two states that use it. There's about 50 places in, like, little cities all across the country that use it, but there's only two states that use it total. And now there's 10 states that have banned it, and that's going to grow probably to 11 with Missouri in November as well.  The claims that we have with ranked choice voting are pretty bizarre. I'm going to go over those real quick. And so, again, remember that you have jungle primary, so you select just one person. Anybody can run on jungle primary. There's no vetting process. Bad news for Republicans, bad news for most people.  And then the rank-choice voting system allows for manipulation and exhausted ballots. So people like my grandfather, who loved to vote, loved to be a participant in the process, will not vote for more than one person, but because of that could ultimately have their vote thrown out. And if you look at the 2022 election and you look at all the people that voted for just one person and you add their votes back in, Sarah Palin wins. If all the people that voted for Nick Bagich voted for Sarah Palin second...  Palin wins the election. So what do you say to the people that want to sell to support and not fight ranked choice voting when they say, well, rank the red? I know what I say, but I want to hear what you say. So I think rank the red was a failure in its wording. It's rank all Republicans.  And so that's the best strategy to win with ranked choice voting. But the problem that you have, even with this, and I'm a pretty respected person overall when it comes to this topic, and so when I go around and tell people it doesn't matter, the guys are still going to vote for just one person. That's just because that's just how they are, and that's a moral value thing. You're ignoring actual ground conditions with that. But because of that, those people are going to end up costing us elections.  And so because the system isn't designed for people to do that. And so we're going to cover these real quick. So merits of ranked choice voting. I want simple merits. So this is what I broke it down. Is it better? Why? Is it cheaper? Why? Is it faster? How? Does it increase turnout? Proof. Does it eliminate spoiler candidates? Proof. Does it help third parties? Proof. And does it produce an absolute majority? It doesn't do any of these things. It claims they do, but it doesn't do any of them.  And then, in fact, I've actually gotten in touch with the lieutenant governor and got all the details on the election. And this was the most expensive election in Alaska's history. We spent 328% more with ranked choice voting election than we did any other election previously. And from 2010 to 2020, our average spend was $3.3 million. We spent almost $11.1 million on ranked choice voting elections.  $2.5 million went to the special election that shouldn't have happened. That was earlier when I said Don Young passed away. $2.5 million spent just because we added this special election little gamut. The regular election was $5 million, so just the regular election by itself was way more expensive than the $3.3 million. And it cost $3.5 million just to buy the equipment and do all the software and everything else, all the training and stuff necessary.  They said that ranked choice voting education was going to be $150,000 and end up being $3.1 million. So they had to get a special appropriation from the legislature. So they spent an equivalent of one year's worth in an entire election just on ranked choice voting education. And that was a 2,000% increase from their budgeted item. I don't really like the government blowing their budget by 2,000%. That's not really super cohesive with fiscal conservatism and things like that.  And so on top of all this, we have the lowest voter turnout in the history of the state. We added more electronic voting machines. And we're the last state in the country for election results. I don't really see any benefit of using ranked choice voting. And I hope everyone on this call recognizes how dangerous this is. And I'm not the only one. There's Secretary of State of Washington State who recently came out and said he was originally a proponent of ranked choice voting and he liked it.  But, you know, he has a disabled daughter and he said that his disabled daughter, he was concerned about her and her ability to understand the system. And so the secretary of state is a Democrat in Washington state is now against ranked choice voting. Secretary of state of Montana is Republicans against ranked choice voting. The D.C. Democrats.  D.C. Democratic Party have sued the block ranked choice voting last year because they did not want it in D.C. Gavin Newsom vetoed ranked choice voting from taking effect in California.  Former California Jerry Brown also against ranked choice voting. Where did you see the Republicans in our own state with this? How's that gone? Oh, you know, I'm glad we have a little bit of time left. You know, the Alaska Republican Party, the local groups are very, very helpful in a lot of states. Kenai and Fairbanks and Mat-Su, they're great. But the actual state Republican Party was probably the most useless party  you know, hunk of trash I've ever dealt with, you know, they didn't do anything. And, you know, I've done, uh, I've asked, you know, I didn't really talk to him too much, but they didn't offer any support and offer any data. They didn't offer any, uh, financial, they didn't offer any volunteers. They've had nothing.  They just left us to our own devices, and that's just not how you do things. I'm in touch with the chairs of the Idaho GOP, the Oregon GOP, the Arizona GOP, the Hawaii GOP. They've flown me out there. They've paid me to fly to Idaho and Oregon and Arizona and these places and do presentations. That's sad. If you had attached a wind farm plan to it, you might have got heard.  yeah i know right yeah i don't know it's it's this whole uh alaska's not it what it appears and a lot of people from other states think we're just this bright red star yeah the people sure are but not the not the republican party the republican party is an embarrassment my hundred percent and darn sure not the caucus totally feckless rhinos just it's brutal completely revamped like start from scratch and start over man like  And so, like, that's some good news is, like, there are some groups in the state that are actually starting to partner up with one another and essentially put a force against the Anchorage Republicans. And so, you know, now you're having, like, the entire group of 31 through 36 and some others, House districts that are working together to put a bigger population together.  group against the anchorage republicans to essentially make it where they don't run the convention again they don't run stuff again this convention was a joke and i hope everyone else in the state actually recognize that we have a lot of work to do with our republican party okay on that phil how do we support you how do we support you how do we support you  Yeah, check out my nationwide advocate website, rankchoicedu.org. And to keep everybody updated, Alaskans for Honest Elections is shut down now. We are moving on to the Yes on 2 group. And so vote Yes on 2 November 5th, and let's get rid of rank choice voting in Alaska. We'll be the first state in the country to remove it. Stay in touch, Phil. We'll have you back on during this, if you might. Thank you for being here today. What a gift. Of course, absolutely. 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