The Pros and Cons of Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting

07/13/23 • 55 min

Do open primaries and ranked-choice voting have the potential to improve American elections, or will they create more problems than they solve? Kevin Meyer, former lieutenant governor of Alaska; Steve Goldstein, executive director of Save Democracy AZ; and Jaime Molera, former Arizona superintendent of public instruction join the O'Connor Institute and Civics for Life to discuss the issue.

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Civics for Life - The Pros and Cons of Open Primaries and Ranked Choice Voting

Transcript

Liam Julian:

Welcome to an O'Connor Institute and Civics for Life issues and answers forum on the pros and cons of open primaries and ranked choice voting. I'm Liam Julian with the O'Connor Institute. In most American elections, voters cast a vote for one person per race, and the candidate who garners the most votes wins. But in a system of ranked choice voting, or RCV, voters are asked to rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins a majority of first p