Nevada voters will weigh in this cycle on the biggest change to the state’s election laws since universal mail-in ballots were introduced in 2020: a ballot measure that would implement open primaries and ranked-choice voting.
It’s attracted opposition from both major parties — something that proponents say shows the ballot question takes power away from the two-party system and distributes it to the voters.
“When you already have a lot of calculus done on how to get your candidates that the party approves of through the primary and to the general, you’re not going to want that messed with,” said Sondra Cosgrove, executive director of Vote Nevada and a backer of the measure, said at IndyFest earlier this month.
During a 50-minute panel discussion at The Nevada Independent ’s annual politics and policy-focused conference, Cosgrove, Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar and Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nevada Athar Haseebullah discussed the measure, Question 3, as well as a voter identification ballot measure, Question 7, threats to the election system and more.