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> Iowa has enshrined in its laws that it must have the first primaries in the US I'm confused, how can a single state unilaterally require that its primary is
by mycologos 6y ago
> Iowa has enshrined in its laws that it must have the first primaries in the US
I'm confused, how can a single state unilaterally require that its primary is the earliest in the nation? What's to prevent another state from passing a law that its primary must be one day before Iowa's?
- leecb 6y agoDoes this mean that if another state organizes a primary earlier than Iowa's primary, that Iowa will reschedule their primary to be even earlier than the other state?
- jcranmer 6y agoThis is basically what happened in 2008.
- maxerickson 6y agoThey can't stop other states from competing to be first.
- CountSessine 6y agoIf another state scheduled their's ahead of Iowa's, Iowa's state officials would be legally required to reschedule Iowa's ahead of this other state's. It would be super fun if another state passed a similar law.
- fzzzy 6y agoInfinite corecursion! [edit] apparently corecursion isn't the correct term for when two functions call each other recursively? I thought there was a term for it
- smegger001 6y agois it bad of me that I want this to happen to end the madness. I can just imagine Iowa trying to sue another state for doing this.
- CountSessine 6y agoI want this to happen too
- bluGill 6y agoThey wouldn't have to. At the national conventions all delegates from states that go before iowa will be unable to vote by the existing rules and that limits what States would even be willing to try.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> I'm confused, how can a single state unilaterally require that its primary is the earliest in the nation? It can’t, it requires cooperation of the other states.