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I am someplace that has open primaries and nothing like you are concerned about transpires. The reason is that if you participate in one primary you lose the ab
by derbOac 4y ago
I am someplace that has open primaries and nothing like you are concerned about transpires. The reason is that if you participate in one primary you lose the ability to participate in the other. In some sense the threat of each side doing it keeps people from doing it.
Also you can't really in keep people from registering for a given party, so enforcing a non open primary isn't feasible in practice.
- shkkmo 4y agoAlaska switched to a non-partisan top 4 RCV primary. This seems much more likely type of primary to actually benefit moderate candidates and voters. We've had moderate candidates get primaried and have to run and win write-in campaigns to stay in office. This means that reasonably popular moderate candidates will at least always get to run in the general election.
- derbOac 4y agoRCV has been passing in referendums here, which is changing some of the primaries, but at a very local level.