Ranked voting took a hit last week when several states rejected the bill, including Nevada, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho.
In Colorado, Proposition 131 would create a primary system open to candidates from any party, with the top four vote-getters advancing to the general election after voters rank the candidates from start to finish. It had become.
“The ranked-choice voting movement has worked very hard to convince everyone that it's a great idea,” data scientist Seth Wuerfel told Colorado Public Radio. “There are some benefits, but they're not absolute. And I think voters are skeptical of anything they don't understand right away.”
In Idaho, Proposition 1 would also have abolished the party primary system.
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Vote center in Anchorage, Alaska. (Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Nearly 70% of voters rejected it.
“You need scandal, you need corruption, you need something happening across the state to pass something complex like this,” California Institute of Technology professor Michael Alvarez told Boise State Public Radio. . “I'm not very involved in politics in different states, but I don't see a common 'why' there.”
Proposition 117, Oregon's ranked choice voting measure, was rejected by 58% of voters.
“Voters this year have been reluctant to drastically change how they vote,” Chandler James, a political science professor at the University of Oregon, told Oregon Public Radio. “But I don’t think that will be the end of ranked choice voting in the future.”
Voters in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Louis Rolland/Getty Images)
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A similar bill in Nevada was rejected by 53% of voters. A similar bill passed in 2022 with a nearly 6% vote, but according to the Nevada Independent, Nevada's bill requiring an amendment to the state constitution was passed in two consecutive elections. It will not come into force until
Ranked-choice voting has already been implemented statewide in states such as Alaska, Maine and New York City, where a bill to repeal it is likely to pass by a narrow margin. Hawaii uses ranked choice voting for some special elections.
Voters in Denver, Colorado. (Mark Piscotti/Getty Images)
In Missouri, voters approved a constitutional amendment banning ranked-choice voting.
“We believe in the one-person, one-vote system that our country was founded on,” Missouri Sen. Ben Brown, who sponsored the bill, previously said in an interview, according to NPR.
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Other states that have banned ranked choice voting include Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee and Florida.
