Government and political law attorney Terrance Carroll shares his insights on Colorado Proposition 131 in an article from The Denver Post. Carroll, who serves as counsel on the Prop 131 ballot committee, discusses the benefits of Prop 131, such as equal access to democracy, and the reasons political parties oppose this measure.

Below are excerpts from the article.

“By doing this — open primaries and final-four, ranked-choice voting — what we’re actually doing is saying that all of us, now, have access to democracy,” said Terrance Carroll, a former Democratic speaker of the Colorado House. “You don’t have to register a certain way. The opposition to this — they have a vested interest in a system where they can be assured that they control the outcome of the election, as opposed to voters controlling the outcome of the election.”

“Is there a possibility that (a general election race) could be all Democrats, all Republicans or all Green Party people — or some mixture thereof? Yes, there is,” said Carroll, the former state House speaker. “But at the end of the day, it’s the voice of voters. We have to stop thinking about democracy from the perspective of what’s good for political parties.”

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