Published On 12/8/2024
The post-election headlines are making much ado about the failure to adopt Instant-Runoff (ranked) Voting in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Arizona. In all but Oregon, the reform was paired with a choose-one all-candidate primary open to all voters, modeled after Alaska’s Final-4 Voting. (Alaska voters narrowly – by 664 votes – retained Final-4 Voting.) Voters also rejected primary election reforms in Montana and South Dakota and banned ranked voting in Missouri.