“And though it lost in Oregon, she pointed out that the measure had majority support in jurisdictions that currently use ranked choice voting, such as Multnomah (home to Portland) and Benton counties.”
Problem: In Portland, yes, a majority of voters did vote for the state wide ranked choice ballot measure… but 20% of voters completely SKIPPED the ranked choice races for Mayor and City Council.
They had an option of ranking their top 6 choices and did not choose any.
That’s too many positions to research for just one race. Five to six would probably be about the right amount of candidates for a single seat RCV.
I think [open] primaries still have a place to help weed out the field and narrow in on specific candidates.
Not every party has the money or resources to run a primary
These are all non-partisan races.
OK so then who should be running primaries?
