Nick Troiano

And so it's not the legislature that's trying to repeal it, right?

It's a small faction of partisan activists that are.

Well, I think the challenge that we saw in 2022 was that the candidates who were running, the two Republicans, were late to adopt their campaign strategies to this new system.

So instead of telling voters, vote for me first and the other Republican second, they ran against the system that the voters just adopted.

And so without that adoption of a new strategy to build broad coalitions,

A moderate Democrat, Mary Paltola, was able to win that U.S.

House race.

By the way, a couple of years later, voters voted differently and a Republican now represents that U.S.

House seat.

So I do think that there is this transition period in which the parties and the politicians have to get smarter in how they campaign under the new rules of the system rather than campaigning under what the old rules used to be.

They actually expanded what they're trying to repeal to include repealing dark money disclosure requirements that were originally passed in 2020.

Oh, wow.

That actually helps your cause.

People don't like dark money.

People don't like dark money and they don't like party primaries and they don't like plurality winners in elections.

And so opponents are trying to do something unpopular for the sake of protecting what was their own political power.

And I'm confident that the system will continue to endure and be a proof of concept that other states could potentially replicate.

And that's what we did see in last year's elections.

Multiple other states pursued ballot initiatives for an Alaska-style kind of system.

And while none passed, three states came within three percentage points of passing in a pretty tough –