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Ranked-Choice Voting Supporters See Opening in Fall River Mayoral Recall; Voters in Vermont’s Largest City Feel Differently About It

Matthew McDonald

Ranked-choice-voting advocates are using the recall election of Mayor Jasiel Correia II this week in Fall River to argue why their preferred system should become law in Massachusetts.

Correia, who is under federal indictment for fraud, was recalled by a 61 percent majority of voters Tuesday, March 12, but elected to the theoretically vacant position on the same ballot by winning a plurality of 35 percent. The second-place finisher took 33 percent, followed by three other candidates who further split the vote.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez May Not Know Much, But Her Handlers Think They Do

Matthew McDonald

How does someone as little-informed as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez become the most famous member of Congress almost overnight?

Well-funded radical leftists behind the scenes who scripted her campaign are also scripting her public statements, according to an article by Frank Hawkins in The American Thinker.

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