If you’re tired of every Election Day having to choose between the extreme, divisive and sometimes downright wacky candidates the Republican and Democrat parties have offered you — or just giving up and casting a protest vote for a third-party candidate with no chance of winning — then please, please, please vote “yes” on Question 3 this November, to bring open primaries and ranked choice voting (RCV) to Nevada.
Question 3 applies to all Nevada partisan (except presidential) elections. It calls for an open primary with all candidates from all parties, with the top five vote-getters advancing to the general election. The winner is then selected by ranked-choice voting, in which voters rank the candidates 1 through 5 on their ballots. In each round of vote tabulation, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and that candidate’s votes are redistributed to the remaining candidates in accordance with those voters’ next-ranked choices. This process is repeated until one candidate has more than 50% of the votes.