James Kaufman

“Some people have a pretty strong traditionalist perspective: one person, one man, one vote,”

James Kaufman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Kaufman, a critic of ranked-choice voting, said some Alaskans disagree with the system's implementation and refuse to use it.

“And, so, the ballot fatigue where people just don’t rank because maybe they disagree with it; there’s a pretty strong segment of the population here that just patently disagrees with the rank-choice voting system we ended up with. And they don’t necessarily believe in utilizing it,”

James Kaufman · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-29

Kaufman added that a strong segment of Alaska's population disagrees with the ranked-choice voting system and does not believe in utilizing it.