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- Sarah Palin came all the way to CPAC in Maryland to speak out against ranked-choice voting.
- The system lets voters rank multiple candidates and is designed to ensure that winners have majority support.
- But Alaska elected a Democrat in part due to the system, and now conservatives want to get rid of it.
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Among the far-right conservative influencers, politicians, and personalities at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year was former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the one-time Republican vice-presidential candidate who recently lost a House race to Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola.