Alaska has a voting system like no other state. Republicans worry it could cost them in November

Alaska uses ranked choice voting, a system in which voters rank candidates by preference rather than selecting one. In the November Senate race, Republican Dan Sullivan faces Democrat Mary Peltola and an independent candidate named "Decoy Dan" Haussman. Under ranked choice rules, if no candidate wins a majority in the first round, the last-place finisher is eliminated and their voters' second-choice preferences are redistributed until a winner emerges. Sullivan and other Republicans have expressed concern about how the system could affect their electoral prospects.

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