The latest news on this front comes from a really interesting article at Ballot Access News written by the widely-respected election expert and advocate for third party/independent ballot access Richard Winger. Take a look at this excerpt:
On July 29, an Alaska state trial court upheld the top-four initiative passed by the voters in 2020. Kohlhaas v State, 3AN-20-9532. The 20-page decision did not even mention the strongest precedent against the system, Green Party of Alaska v State. In the Green Party case, the State Supreme Court ruled that the Alaska constitution gives more protection for freedom of association for political parties than the U.S. Constitution does. The Green Party decision said that if the Green Party and the Republican Moderate Party wanted to jointly participate in a blanket primary, they may do that, even though the legislature had abolished the blanket primary.
In the top-four case, the Alaskan Independence Party had said that it doesn’t want to participate in the top-four system, but the judge ruled that it must.
Read the full article here. Also see related Democracy Chronicles articles like those on Voting Methods, Direct Democracy, and definitely checkout our main Voting Methods section.
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