PHOENIX (AZ Family) — Arizona voters voted down Proposition 133, which would have changed the Arizona Constitution to require partisan primaries for partisan state offices.

Of the results published at 18:00 on Wednesday, 57.8% were against, compared to 42.2% for.

The ballot measure would have prohibited primaries in which all candidates run in the same primary election and would have made that law take precedence over local statutes and ordinances.

However, experts say that despite the misconceptions, this law would not explicitly restrict or ban ranked-choice voting.

Voters statewide also decided to reject a competing initiative, Prop 140, which would have created an open primary system and then restricted most voters to the general election.

Prop 140 would also have opened up the possibility of ranked-choice voting.

Prop 140 failed by a similar margin and was called Wednesday morning.

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