"Proponents of primary reform say partisan elections often exclude independent and unaffiliated voters and simultaneously bolster more extreme candidates who mainly appeal to a party's base, likely exacerbating polarization."
"The status quo won this year, said Deb Otis, director of research and policy at FairVote, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for ranked choice voting and other electoral reforms."
"Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year's election, delivering a stinging setback to the election reform movement."
"Both nonpartisan primaries and ranked choice voting, advocates say, force candidates to appeal to voters who are outside of their base which could potentially foster more bipartisanship."
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