Nevada Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative (2020)
| Nevada Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative | |
|---|---|
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
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The Nevada Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative was not on the ballot in Nevada as an indirect initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
The measure would have enacted a system of ranked-choice voting (RCV), which would have allowed voters to rank up to three candidates for local, state, and federal offices other than the presidential and vice presidential election. Candidates would have been eliminated in rounds until one wins the support of a simple majority of voters or, if no candidate won a majority, received the most votes.[1]
The measure would have also eliminated primary elections, requiring all candidates to run in a general election. Political parties would have been allowed to endorse candidates for an election, with the endorsement being printed on the ballot.[1]
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the measure is available here.
Sponsors
Nevadans for Election Reform led the campaign in support of the initiative.[1]
Background
Maine Question 5 (2016)
On November 8, 2016, voters approved a ballot initiative—Maine Question 5—to establish a first-in-the-nation statewide system of ranked-choice voting. Voters approved the initiative 52.12 to 47.88 percent. Support for the initiative was stronger in southern coastal Maine, whereas the counties along the state's northern border with Canada voted against the measure.
Question 5 defined ranked-choice voting as "the method of casting and tabulating votes in which voters rank candidates in order of preference, tabulation proceeds in sequential rounds in which last-place candidates are defeated and the candidate with the most votes in the final round is elected."[2]
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Nevada, the number of signatures required to qualify an indirect initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 10 percent of the total votes cast in the most recent general election. Moreover, signature gathering must be distributed equally among each of the state's four congressional districts. The initial filing of an initiated state statute cannot be made before January 1 of the year preceding the next regular legislative session. Signature petitions must be filed with county officials by the second Tuesday in November of an even-numbered year—two years prior to the targeted election date. The final submission of signatures to the secretary of state must be made at least 30 days prior to the start of the next regular legislative session.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 112,544 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures to county clerks was November 13, 2018.
Signatures are verified by county clerks using a random sampling method if more than 500 signatures were submitted in that county. If enough signatures are submitted and verified, the initiative goes before the legislature. If the legislature approves and the governor signs the measure, there is no election. Otherwise, the initiative goes on the next general election ballot.
Details about the initiative
On April 5, 2018, the committee Nevadans for Election Reform filed the ballot initiative. Nevadans for Election Reform did not file signatures by the deadline on November 13, 2018.[3]
See also
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Footnotes
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