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Commissioner Carl Weisbrod questions Professor Richard Barton on ranked-choice voting in open primaries and general election turnout
1:02:28
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Commissioner Carl Weisbrod asks Professor Richard Barton about the impact of combining ranked-choice voting within an open primary system on subsequent general election turnout.
Professor Barton responds that research on this specific combination at the local level is limited, as most rigorous studies have focused on federal or state-level elections without this exact configuration.
Carl Weisbrod
1:02:28
This question to mister Barton.
1:02:31
The California system as it exists now has an open primary without ranked choice voting.
1:02:43
What do you see as the impact of the combination of ranked choice voting in a primary and in an open primary and its effect on turnout in the general election thereafter, or is there any evidence on this at all?
Richard Barton
1:03:07
Of having ranked choice voting in the primary.
Carl Weisbrod
1:03:10
In the open primary, correct.
Richard Barton
1:03:14
The evidence on this is that there's pretty limited research on this.
1:03:17
So most of the research has been done at the federal or state level.
1:03:23
And of course there's a lot of variation that we could be looking at, including the kinds of systems that you're talking about at the local level, but studies that have been sort of like rigorous studies across many municipalities on this are pretty limited.