Group hopes to amend Missouri constitution to enact ranked-choice voting [View all]

An effort to do away with partisan primaries in Missouri and replace them with a "ranked choice" method got a big boost last week, receiving roughly $670,000 from a Virginia-based nonprofit hoping to put the idea on the 2022 statewide ballot.

A group called Better Elections is pushing an initiative petition that would amend Missouri's constitution to allow all voters to vote for any candidate in a combined primary.

The four candidates in the primary with the most votes would advance to the general election, regardless of party. Then in the general election, voters would be allowed to rank those four candidates from first choice to last — or just vote for their first choice.

The change would apply to elections for statewide office, the Missouri General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Two versions of the initiative petition have been approved by the Secretary of State's Office to begin collecting signatures.

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(Jefferson City News Tribune)