Local advocates in states like Nevada are keeping Alaska’s 2020 effort to change the state’s election system in mind, while deep-pocketed national groups are throwing resources behind election reform campaigns in the Lower 48.
The election reform movement in Nevada has backing from the state realtors association and gambling companies. Nevada attorney Todd Bice, who represents several of the state’s largest gaming companies, leads Nevada Voters First, the political action committee sponsoring the ballot initiative. The PAC raised $19,439,000 as of Sept. 30. The funds come almost entirely from wealthy national donors like Gehl.
“Passing ranked choice voting would just be another way of confusing Nevada voters and making sure that they don’t turn out to vote,” Persaud-Zamora said. “Nevada voters feel like oftentimes they’re voting for the lesser of two evils,” he said. “Nevada voters feel like their elected officials don’t represent them and that their voices don’t matter.”However, the road to election reform in
Though state leaders of the election reform movement say they have tried to keep their campaign Nevada-focused, local activist Sondra Cosgrove, the executive director of Vote Nevada, said Alaska’s special election helped prove Nevadans could vote to implement a similar system.“Things that we said theoretically we thought could happen in Nevada, Alaska is now a model saying it did happen,” said Cosgrove.
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