Measure on the ballot in the 2024 Arizona General Election in Arizona.
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Get StartedThis amendment would require a partisan primary election and prohibits primary elections where all candidates run in the same primary regardless of political party affiliation, such as top-two, top-four and top-five primaries.
A "yes" vote shall have the effect of amending the Arizona Constitution to require that when the Legislature enacts laws regulating direct primary elections for partisan offices, those laws shall supersede any city law, regulation, or policy to the contrary. The primaries would be conducted in a manner so that each political party represented on the ballot may nominate for each office a number of candidates equal to the number of positions to be filled for that office in the ensuing general election and requires eligible candidates who are nominated at a primary election to be placed on the next general election ballot.
A "no" vote shall have the effect of keeping the current laws related to partisan primary elections.
"We need this because it's just clarifying what our direct primary election is, some people try to challenge that." - Rep. Austin Smith (R), in support of Proposition 133 (Learn more)
"You have outside groups putting money into Arizona to push an initiative that really hasn't worked well in other states, let's take... let's take me running for instance, if I'm like the fourth-place candidate, under most people on most people's ballots I could, through circumstances, make it to the top and win the election, just like the current New York City mayor did, and I think that if you didn't get over 50% of the votes the first time around, you shouldn't win an election." - State Sen. Anthony Kern (R), in support of Proposition 133 (Learn more)
"This proposal might sound like it's about simplifying elections, but it will actually make things harder for a lot of voters. If you pass Proposition 133, primary elections would be strictly partisan, meaning that you'd only be able to vote for candidates in your own party during primary elections. That means if you don't strongly identify with a party or if you like a candidate from a different party, you're out of luck. It's not fair to limit our choices like that." - AZ Public Health Association, in opposition to Proposition 133 (Learn more)
"With this (resolution), we are preempting the ability of local, political subdivisions from holding elections in a certain format that they may see fit for their own political locality." - Sen. Priya Sundareshan (D), in opposition to Proposition 133 (Learn more)
Requires Direct Primary Elections for Partisan Offices to Allow Each Recognized Political Party to Nominate and Place on the Next General Election Ballot as Many Candidates for Each Office as There Are Open Positions. Provides That Direct Primary Election Laws Enacted by the Legislature Supersede Inconsistent City Laws.
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