on how those Montana ballot measures fit into the national landscape.

We're joined now by Reed Wilson, founder and editor of Plurbus News.

That's a digital media outlet tracking public policy in the states.

It's great to have you here.

Thanks for having me.

So Montana is considering a nonpartisan primary.

What else are voters considering this year?

Well, first of all, we're seeing a lot of ballot initiatives that have to do with rank choice voting.

That is, when you walk into a ballot,

instead of choosing just one candidate,

you can rank your best choices.

The thinking on that is that voters will be able to

prioritize the candidates who build the broadest coalition and therefore

will have fewer extremists from the right or the left and more people who work towards consensus

and building those big coalitions.

We're going to see those ballot measures in Colorado,

Washington, D.C. Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon.

Interestingly, in Alaska, voters are going to decide

whether or not to repeal their existing

rank choice voting.

So it's not exactly something that everybody absolutely loves,

but this is the highest number of these ballot initiatives

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