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Ballot News of Interest

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yomingites’ August 16, 2022, Primary VOTE: In the United States House of Representatives Republican Primary election, voters gave 106,322 votes to Harriet Maxine Hageman: a Wyoming native University of Wyoming JD with experience in the private and public sectors: a tri-state private practice attorney, consultancy with Wyoming state government and cofounder of “the Wyoming Conservation Alliance,” clerk with federal appeals judge, third placement in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial Republican primary election.

Votes received by other contenders on the ballot (listed here alphabetically by last name)

• 1,175 to Robyn Belinskey: a Wyoming native and businesswoman engaged in “organizing people’s homes” and lacking substantive qualifications (pertinent experience and education) related to the elective position. 
  

• 4,237 to Anthony Bouchard: a (?) Florida native and a man of questionable of character who lacks pertinent qualifications in experience and education, who is profiled as a lobbyist for gun owners and an automotive business management consultant, real estate agent, and operator of a septic-draining business; presently holding an eight-term seat ending in 2025 in the Wyoming State Senate.
  

• 47,615 to Elizabeth Lynne “Liz” Cheney: a Madison, Wisconsin native, Chicago University JD and hanger on who has revolved in and out of Federal Washington: from the US Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development to Armitage Associates LLP (a questionable consultancy founded by an entrenched a militarist) to international law firm White & Case, to World Bank Group member International Finance Corporation (consulting); to the US House of Representatives (2017 - )
  

• 2,167 to Denton Knapp: an entrenched militarist of questionable residency (California?) with no civilian service and extensive military training and experience, profiled as an owner of a Florida-headquartered military-related business called “Valor Made LLC.”
  

 

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laskans’ August 16, 2022, US Senate Primary VOTE: Alaska’s nonpartisan primary for the US Senate seat allowed for the first time “the top-four” in which “all candidates, regardless of party affiliation, run in a single primary election; and the  four candidates who receive the most votes advance to the general election, where the winner is decided using ranked-choice voting.”

On the ballot were candidates registered in four political parties (Republican Party 8, Democratic Party 3, Libertarian Party 1, Alaskan Independence Party 2), and five registered independents.

Influential political and government operatives in New York have denied such democratic participation and processes. One prime time Rochester area talk-show host even expressed the view that ranked-choice voting is just too complicated for voters, and only the elephant-donkey show with pals should be allowed lines on ballots.

Voters in Alaska gave 38,549 of their votes to incumbent US Senator Lisa Murkowski, 38,311of their votes to attorney Kelly Tshibaka, and the rest to seventeen other candidates.  

 Tshibaka is an Alaska native and a Harvard Law JD who has worked with State and Federal offices: Department of Administration of the State of Alaska (commissioner); US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (special assistant); Federal Trade Commission (acting inspector general); United States Postal Service (assistant inspector general and chief data officer).

 Murkowski is a Ketchikan, Territory of Alaska, native and Willamette University College of Law (Salem, Oregon) JD who worked in public and private sectors: Member of the US Senate since 2002; and before that a member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1999-2002); a private practice attorney (1989-1996); and attorney with the Anchorage, Alaska, District Court (1987-1989).

 

Sources
Ballotpedia, https://ballotpedia.org/Kelly_Tshibaka
https://ballotpedia.org/Lisa_Murkowski
https://ballotpedia.org/August_16,_2022,_election_results
https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_election_in_Wyoming,_2022_(August_16_Republican_primary)
https://ballotpedia.org/Harriet_Hageman
 

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Hageman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski

Everybody Wiki https://en.everybodywiki.com/Kelly_Tshibaka

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