Elections don’t belong to private political parties. While private political groups have the right to identify their standard bearers, that doesn’t mean voters should be restricted in deciding who advances to the general election and represents them in office. WA’s Secretary of State Steve Hobbs remains opposed to ranked choice voting: “Ranked-choice voting adds a layer of complexity to voting that threatens to disenfranchise people who aren’t experts at the process." Former California Governor Jerry Brown may have said it best: "In a time when we want to encourage voter participation, we need to keep voting simple. Ranked choice voting is overly complicated and confusing. I believe it deprives voters of genuinely informed choice." Moving to a clean open primary like WA’s Top Two, is a debate worth having. Adopting open primaries, however, need not be tied to the controversy of ranked choice voting. https://lnkd.in/g798tGVe