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Arizona Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2024)
| Arizona Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative | |
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| Election date November 5, 2024 | |
| Topic Electoral systems | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Arizona Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative was not on the ballot in Arizona as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 5, 2024.
This amendment would establish open primaries and top-five ranked-choice voting for state offices, United States representatives, and United States senators.[1]
You can read more about other electoral system ballot measures in Arizona, including in 2024, here.
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the ballot measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
Process in Arizona
In Arizona, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 15 percent of votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Petitions can be circulated for up to 24 months. Signature petitions must be submitted four months prior to the election at which the measure is to appear.
The requirements to get initiated constitutional amendments certified for the 2024 ballot:
- Signatures: 383,923 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 3, 2024.
If the secretary of state certifies that enough valid signatures were submitted, the initiative is put on the next general election ballot. The secretary of state verifies the signatures through a random sampling of 5 percent of submitted signatures working in collaboration with county recorders. If the random sampling indicates that valid signatures equal to between 95 percent and 105 percent of the required number were submitted, a full check of all signatures is required. If the random sampling shows fewer signatures, the petition fails. If the random sampling shows more, the initiative is certified for the ballot.
Stages of this ballot initiative
On October 11, 2023, the Better Ballot Arizona organization filed this ballot initiative with the secretary of state's office. On December 7, 2023, another version of the initiative was filed.[2] On December 16, 2023, The Arizona Republic reported that Better Ballot Arizona told supporters in an email that the campaign was suspending signature collection, and would instead focus on defeating two other initiatives in 2024.[3]
See also
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Footnotes
- ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Better Ballot Arizona Initiative," accessed October 17, 2023
- ↑ Arizona Secretary of State, "Initiative, Referendum, and Recall," accessed December 11, 2023
- ↑ The Arizona Republic, "As effort to open Arizona primaries fizzles, election reformers target Republican measures," December 16, 2023
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