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If Peltola Had More Votes, She Would Have Lost

Authors: Warren D. Smith, Jiri Navratil

Alaska's August 2022 special election, won by Mary Peltola, was its first statewide instant runoff (IRV) election. We demonstrate a large number of horrific paradoxes, pathologies, problems, and widely publicized lies and misconceptions about this election. For example the election was "non monotonic" in the sense that if 6000 Palin votes had switched to Peltola, that would have made Peltola lose.

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