Letters to the Editor: The top-two primary hasn't solved the many problems with California elections
Aug 18
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Four Los Angeles Times readers respond to a piece on California's election reforms, and ranked choice voting runs through their answers. One writer calls RCV an overlooked fix that ends the spoiler problem and replaces costly runoffs, another argues the top-two primary would work fine if paired with RCV, and a third proposes scrapping primaries entirely for a single preferential general election. Together they show California voters connecting the top-two primary's shortcomings directly to the case for ranked ballots.
