Friednash: Colorado Should Improve Its Presidential Primary and Abandon Its Caucuses

This Denver Post opinion piece by Doug Friednash cites RepresentWomen's ranked choice voting advocacy.

In the book, “When Women Vote,” local authors Stephanie Donner and Amber McReynolds, experts on election administration and policy, explain how ranked-choice voting has resulted in electing more women to office in city council races and how it generally attracts more women candidates, leads to a more civil campaign, and also fosters multiple women to run for office without splitting each other’s votes.

This sentiment is echoed by RepresentWomen, an organization that works to increase women’s representation in elected office, which believes that our current winner-take-all-election systems disadvantages women, especially women of color.  They advocate for fair representation voting, which includes ranked-choice voting, as a method to level the playing field for women candidates.

A few weeks ago, Sen. Michael Bennet introduced The Voter Choice Act to support local and state governments to transition to a ranked-choice voting model for elections. Bennet believes that this can discourage extreme partisanship, incentivize a greater focus on substantive issues, and ensure that election winners better reflect the views of most voters.

Let’s hope that our leaders examine the results and make the changes necessary to create a more inclusive and representative democracy.

Read the full opinion piece here.

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