Senate panel mulls ranked-choice voting for primaries, state elections

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SEN. SAMUEL ZURIER, a Providence Democrat, formed a Senate commission to study ranked-choice voting and other possible changes to how the state conducts primary elections for statewide races. The commission met Wednesday afternoon, May 31, to hear testimony from residents representing all sides of the political spectrum who are in favor of seeing some changes. /PBN FILE PHOTO
In October 2021, Sen. Samuel Zurier, D-Providence, won a five-person Democratic primary with a little more than 31% of the vote. The second and third top vote-getters told him they believed they could have won if only the other had dropped out of the race.  “It didn’t leave a good taste in the mouths of…

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