Employing ranked-choice voting in an even-year June primary followed by a fall general election would avoid the pitfalls of this last election.
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Littwin: Late-breaking Denver mayoral race update — 17 candidates and not a single front runner
In the latest poll, the leading candidates are all at 5%, barely ahead of the margin of error, which is at a competitive 4.9%
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Nicolais: Colorado should ditch its archaic caucus and assembly process
Led by electoral reform advocate Kent Thiry, a movement aims to rid Colorado of the system that vests huge amounts of power in a tiny fraction of activists
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Opinion: Feeling trapped by two-party gridlock? Here’s a way out
Denver conservatives and Colorado Springs liberals, rejoice! This plan would give you a voice at the Capitol.
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Opinion: Fort Collins is voting on how it votes
A city with a history of electoral innovation is at it again.
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Littwin: Sarah Palin lost in a ranked-choice election. Does that mean Colorado should go next?
Does ranked-choice voting help elect moderates and minority candidates? Or is it, as Trumpists claim, a scam to rig elections?
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Nicolais: Colorado should follow Alaska’s electoral lead
By coupling nonpartisan, open primaries with ranked-choice voting, Alaska has both undercut ugly partisan polarization and offered voters greater choice
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Opinion: Ranked-choice voting will push candidates to the center
Coloradans are unique, especially when it comes to voting. We are one of only nine states with more unaffiliated voters than either Democratic voters or Republican voters. In the 2020 election, we had the second-highest turnout of any state, beaten only by Minnesota. Much of this is due to our constant work improving and modernizing […]
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Carman: Ranked-choice voting could make our political process a little less awful
Let’s begin by stipulating that there’s probably no way to escape the steaming pile of awfulness we’re in politically with a mere change in election ballots. Hateful rhetoric, lies, rampant voter suppression measures and the racist monstrosity known as the Electoral College are not going to be neutralized by anything as simple as a new […]
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Like more than one candidate? Fort Collins could be the latest Colorado city to adopt ranked choice voting.
If there are five people running for a city council seat, and you like more than one candidate, how do you decide which one to support? A group of Fort Collins residents has a novel answer: vote for them all. They’re campaigning for a change that would allow voters to rank every candidate on their […]