Election reform advocates had hoped for a big year at the ballot box. That's because a historic number of states were considering initiatives for ranked choice voting or to end partisan primaries.

Summary

Voters across eight states, including Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada, rejected ballot measures for election reforms such as ranked choice voting (RCV) and open primaries, despite a $110 million push from advocates.

The movement, inspired by Alaska’s 2020 adoption of these reforms, failed to gain traction, with critics citing confusion and doubts over RCV’s benefits.

Some reforms succeeded locally, including in Portland, Oregon, but opposition remains strong.

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    We should be pushing approval voting instead, the educational barrier is way lower and both RC and approval are a load better than FPTP.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 hours ago

      both… are a load better than FPTP.

      That’s exactly why we shouldn’t quibble over them too much.

      In other words, now is a good time to make the argument you’re making. However, I also saw people making that sort of argument just before the election, after the decisions about what to put on the ballots had already been made, and in that context the argument come across as anti-RCV concern trolling.