A new ballot initiative wants to bring back closed partisan primaries.
Don't let insiders pick your candidates again.
Vote splitting is breaking California elections. The answer is letting voters rank their choices — not going back to closed partisan primaries.
California's Top-2 primary sends only two candidates to November. In a crowded field, that means the majority can get completely locked out — Democrats losing a governor's race they should win in a landslide, or Republicans with no real say in a blue district.
Now some politicians want to scrap Top-2 entirely and return to closed partisan primaries. That's not a fix. That's going backward.
The real solution: send the top 5 candidates to November, and let voters rank them. Ranked choice voting eliminates the spoiler effect and ensures the winner has broad support. Alaska does it. 57 of California's 58 counties already have the equipment ready.
Tell California leaders: "End vote splitting with Ranked Choice Voting
Add your name to call for Top-5 with RCV — and against any effort to hand power back to party insiders.