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Nevada initiative seeking open primaries, ranked-choice voting makes November ballot [1]
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Date: 2022-07
Nevada initiative seeking open primaries, ranked-choice voting makes November ballot
An initiative that seeks to move Nevada elections to an open primary and ranked-choice voting system has made it to November's ballot.
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The Nevada Secretary of State's office says the signatures gathered for the initiative, filed by the Nevada Voters First Political Action Committee, have been deemed sufficient.
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The initiative, if approved, would eliminate closed primary races for partisan offices in the state, such as governor, attorney general and congressional seats.
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Instead, voters could cast a primary ballot for any candidate, regardless of political party affiliation. The top five vote-getters would advance to the general election.
Nevada currently uses a closed primary system, in which people registered to a political party can only vote in that party's races.
The initiative also proposes using a ranked-choice voting system in the general election.
Under that system, voters would mark candidates by order of preference. If a candidate gets a majority of first-preference votes, they would be elected to office.
If not, the candidate with the fewest number of first-preference votes would be eliminated, and their votes would be redistributed based on their voters' second preferences. The process would continue until there is a candidate with a majority.
The initiative would still need to pass another election after this November's in order to take effect.
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Only two states, Alaska and Maine, use a system of ranked-choice voting in their elections, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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