Backed by Unite America's Kent Thiry, the proposals would end party primaries and enact ranked choice voting.
In a conference room tucked away in a downtown Denver office building, a small group of bureaucrats and high-powered lawyers is continuing to hash out a series of proposals that could radically reshape the way Colorado conducts its elections., proponents have set out to abolish the party primary and caucus system for nominating candidates for statewide and legislative offices, replacing it with an open “all-candidate primary” and a four-candidate general election decided by ranked choice voting.
Ranked choice voting, also known as instant-runoff voting, is a system in which voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated, and those ballots’ second-choice votes are tallied. The process is repeated until one candidate receives a majority.
Proponents returned to the Title Board on March 6 with a version of their proposal that would make statutory changes, rather than amend the state Constitution, and sought to closely “mirror” existing provisions of the state’s election code. That once again satisfied the board, which voted unanimously that the measure meets the single-subject requirement — for now. Opponents must file a motion for the board to rehear its decision by next week.
Protracted disputes over the single-subject requirement often end up being adjudicated by the Colorado Supreme Court. If proponents are unable to combine the primary and general election changes in a single measure, they said during a continued hearing on Thursday, they’re prepared to run separate measures that would only go into effect if both are approved.
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