Runoff, ranked-choice or jungle primaries? Utahan Lawmakers consider options...

[Saint Furrybutt]

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900071396/runoff-ranked-choice-or-jungle-primaries-lawmakers-consider-options-to-deal-with-plurality.html

Primary elections in Utah could change significantly as state lawmakers consider ways to deal with concerns about winners advancing to the general election ballot with less than a majority of the vote.

[EmperorScorpious]

What the hell is a jungle primary?

[Clovis]

A primary in which Toucans, Jesus Lizards and Spider Monkeys have voting rights assuming they can present the requisite government ID.

[Sableye]

its a perfectly fitting name for a place once named Deserette

[TornadoAP]

Strange to see this coming from Utah as backwards as it is but they've always been people with a different political views so.

For those of you wondering btw, a "Jungle Primary" is the slang term for a "Nonpartisan blanket primary", and it's basically having the general election as a primary, where everyone votes in one big pool of candidates rather than individual parties, and then the two most voted for candidates advance to a secondary round of voting to be fight it out and be crowned the supreme politician. California and Washington use it, and it doesn't really seem to provide any advantages to voter representation considering it still uses first past the post.