Vermont Senate advances ranked choice voting for presidential primaries

| Sarah Mearhoff | VTDigger |

The Senate on Wednesday voted to advance a bill that would move toward implementing ranked choice voting in Vermont for presidential primary elections. But hold your horses: Ballots wouldn’t change until 2028.

S.32 comes after a different, more robust ranked choice voting bill melted away last year. Lawmakers came back this year with the idea to limit implementation of the system to presidential primaries as a trial run.