Nevada Top-Two Primary Initiative (2022)
| Nevada Top-Two Primary Initiative (2020) | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Nevada Top-Two Primary Initiative did not appear on the ballot in Nevada as an indirect initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
Measure design
The measure would have established a top-two open primary system for primary elections for partisan offices in Nevada.
A top-two primary is a type of primary election in which all candidates are listed on the same primary ballot. The top two vote-getters, regardless of their partisan affiliations, advance to the general election. Consequently, it is possible for two candidates belonging to the same political party to win in a top-two primary and face off in the general election.[1][2] An open primary is any primary election in which a voter either does not have to formally affiliate with a political party in order to vote in its primary or can declare his or her affiliation with a party at the polls on the day of the primary even if the voter was previously affiliated with a different party.[3][4] [5][6]
Text of measure
Full text
- The full text of the measure is available here.
Sponsors
Open Primaries Nevada led the campaign in support of the measure.[7]
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 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 97,598 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures to county clerks was November 18, 2020.
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 this initiative
- State Senator Ben Kieckhefer (R) filed the initiative petition on January 31, 2020.[8]
- The sponsors of the initiative did not submit signatures by the deadline.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Taegan Goddard's Political Dictionary, "Jungle primary," accessed January 13, 2016
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," accessed September 11, 2017
- ↑ FairVote, "Who Can Vote in Congressional Primaries," accessed August 17, 2017
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Primary Election Types," July 21, 2016
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "Initiative Petition: S-03-2020," accessed February 3, 2020
- ↑ 'Nevada Secretary of State, "2020 Petitions & General Election Ballot Questions," accessed February 3, 2020
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "PAC Information," accessed February 5, 2020
- ↑ Nevada Secretary of State, "Notice of Intent to Circulate," accessed February 3, 2020
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