On Election Day, voters in the reliably-Republican state of Idaho soundly rejected Proposition 1, a measure that would, according to the billboards, “Californicate” Idaho by destroying the closed GOP primary system and implementing ranked-choice voting.
The Idaho Statesman explained:
If Prop 1 had passed, the measure would have made two big changes to the state’s elections. Instead of the closed Republican primary (and separate, but open, Democratic primary), all voters would have participated in a single “blanket” primary. Currently, unaffiliated voters — of which there are about 284,000 — cannot vote in the GOP primary. Voters would have picked their preferred candidate, and the top four would have advanced to the general election. In November, voters could have ranked the candidates in each race. Their second and third choices would become important if any of their preferred picks were eliminated for insufficient votes.
The new format would have applied to all partisan elections except for U.S. president and precinct committeemen.
Thankfully, it didn’t pass, despite the measure’s proponents, the Idahoans for Open Primaries coalition, raising $5.5 million dollars to push the measure on television and social media ads.
KTVB conducted a fact-check on one of the pro-Proposition 1 ads:
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Idahoans for Open Primaries admitted defeat shortly before 11:30 pm Tuesday night, the Statesman reported.
“We are full of pride that we dared to take on the biggest structural problem facing Idaho: the closed primaries,” said Luke Mayville, the group’s spokesperson, in an emailed statement. “It’s never easy to reform a broken system. But one thing is clear to us after talking with hundreds of thousands of voters: Even if Idahoans didn’t support our specific proposal, the vast majority believe the closed primary system is broken. It’s only a matter of time before Idahoans demand reform.”
With 41 of 44 counties reporting at the time of this writing, the measure failed with 595,182 votes against and 260,594 votes for — a 69.5-30.5 split.
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