CO: Measure to change to Alaska-style election system could be on the ballot next year

[Roll Roons]

https://coloradosun.com/2023/11/20/2024-ballot-measure-ranked-choice-voting/

The measure includes:
-Top-four jungle primary with RCV in the general
-The only way to get on the ballot is via petitions and the caucus system would be abolished
-Vacant state legislative seats filled through special elections, not appointment

To take effect, it would have to pass with 55% of the vote, not 50%.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I wish they’d just do a RCV instead of Alaska’s strange system

[E-Dawg]

I am pro-Ranked Choice voting, but I also think that parties have the right to run their own primaries. So I'm mixed on this, I wish these would be two separate propositions so people could both support RCV & oppose the jungle primaries.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I am pro-Ranked Choice voting, but I also think that parties have the right to run their own primaries. So I'm mixed on this, I wish these would be two separate propositions so people could both support RCV & oppose the jungle primaries.

Having a runoff and ranked choice voting kind of defeats the point of both

[Vosem]

I am pro-Ranked Choice voting, but I also think that parties have the right to run their own primaries. So I'm mixed on this, I wish these would be two separate propositions so people could both support RCV & oppose the jungle primaries.

No, parties running their own primaries is one of the worst and most un-democratic aspects of the American system. It means that if (for example) I live in a very blue congressional district in a very red state (which was true when I lived in St. Louis), I need to choose between voting in primaries that elect people to more local offices and voting in primaries that elect people to statewide offices.

Strongly support this.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

I find it to be an odd system but just about anything is better than FPTP.