JD Vance comments on ranked choice voting
The gist
Vice President JD Vance called Alaska's ranked-choice voting "weird" and said he does not fully understand it.
His remarks came as he defended the administration's lawsuit over the Alaska Senate result.
How it unfolded
- recentlyThe Department of Justice files a lawsuit seeking to prevent certification of the Alaska Senate result if incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan does not win and if he would have won had votes for namesake challenger Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. instead been cast for him.
- recentlyThe League of Women Voters of Alaska and another group ask for the Trump administration's lawsuit to be dismissed before Election Day and to intervene in the case.
- recentlyVance, speaking with reporters, calls Alaska's ranked-choice voting system "weird" and says he does not fully understand how it works, while defending the administration's concerns and its lawsuit.