BOISE, Idaho — The Open Primaries initiative will officially be on the November ballot as the Idaho Secretary of State's Office announced it has met all requirements.
The office said that Idahoans for Open Primaries, the group behind the initiative, met the threshold of 62,895 petition signatures, which is 6% of total voters. The Secretary of State's Office was the final verification needed before it qualified for the ballot.
On July 2, the group lined up at the steps of the Idaho State Capitol, filled with about 97,000 signatures gathered across every county in the state.
The initiative proposes a non-partisan primary election, where the top four vote-getters - regardless of party - would advance to the general election.
The general election would have instant runoff voting, often referred to as ranked-choice voting. Voters would choose their top candidate and rank the remaining candidates in order of preference.
If no candidate wins with more than 50% of the vote after the first-choice rankings are counted, then the last-place candidate would be eliminated, and each vote for that candidate would go to the voter's second choice. That process would repeat until one candidate gets at least 50% of the vote and is declared the winner.
On the Nov. 24 ballot, the open primaries initiative would need a simple majority to pass.
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