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Bob Christie Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — Republican state lawmakers are moving on multiple fronts to head off a possible voter initiative that would implement ranked choice voting in Arizona, a system designed to ensure that more moderate candidates can win elections.
People are also reading… "We need this because it's just clarifying what our direct primary election is," freshman Rep. Austin Smith, R-Wittman, said during a Senate hearing."Some people try to challenge that." He doubled down on those comments in a later interview, explaining his opposition by calling the process"a black box" that is inconsistent state to state, appears arbitrary,"can be gamed" and is not transparent to voters.
"It's patently untrue,'' said Coughlin, who worked on the late Sen. John McCain campaign in the 1980s and was a close advisor to Republican former Gov. Jan Brewer."I mean, look at the voter registration file: the largest part of voter registration file now is unaffiliated." If no candidate gets more than 50%, the lowest voter-getter would be eliminated and their voters' second choice would be moved up, as often as necessary, until a winner emerges.
The measures making their way through the Legislature to block ranked choice voting are being pushed by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, a conservative group that lobbies for low taxes and small government.
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