Colorado thrives on competition. The mountains host the X-Games, bicyclists pedal the plains, professional teams strive for the top, and it hosts many of the world’s finest at the Olympic Training Center. In 2018, that same competitive spirit, this time among voters, approved a new era of political competition in Colorado when they approved independent […]
Justin Kurth
Special to The Colorado Sun
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: It’s time for Colorado to embrace ranked-choice voting
Our elections today are full of divisive candidates, many of them elected without most voters’ support. In Colorado, our present system requires candidates to receive only a simple plurality, which is to say, at least one more vote than the second-place candidate. Unfortunately, this means that a candidate can receive even as little as a […]