Colorado voters easily reject ranked-choice voting
Colorado voters on Tuesday rejected Proposition 131, an effort to reform the state’s voting systems in a way that sought to produce more aisle-crossing office holders and that appealed to some business leaders seeking more legislative moderation.
As of midnight., the ranked-choice-voting initiative was failing by a margin of roughly 55% to 45% with more than 2.3 million ballots having been counted. The Yes on 131 campaign conceded about two hours earlier...
The measure sought first to replace each party’s winner-take-all primary for federal and state offices with an all-candidate primary in which the top four vote-getters advanced to the general election regardless of party affiliations. Then, in the general election, it would have required voters to rank those four candidates, eliminating the lowest vote-getter one round at a time and delivering their tallies instead to the candidate each backer ranked as their next choice until one contender had a majority of votes...
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