DNC strips Florida of all delegates

[Tender Branson]

To avoid disenfranchising voters in a state which has already had problems in the past, I think a non-partisan comission should work out a compromise primary plan for the future which is binding for all states, and if it´s not a national primary day (big travel burden for unknown candidates), it could be eased with a rotating 3 stage regional primary in the first or second quarter of a presidential year, something like this:

Each region makes up about 1/3 of the US population and rotates like:

2008: W-N-S
2012: N-S-W
2016: S-W-N

[Tender Branson]

To avoid disenfranchising voters in a state which has already had problems in the past, I think a non-partisan comission should work out a compromise primary plan for the future which is binding for all states, and if it´s not a national primary day (big travel burden for unknown candidates), it could be eased with a rotating 3 stage regional primary in the first or second quarter of a presidential year, something like this:

Only problem with that: Whichever region goes first is going to have way more influence on the result than the regions that go next.  So in one election, we'd have the South deciding the nominees, then four years later, the West deciding the nominees, etc.  Might it make more sense to have the first round of primaries to include states that are more spread out geographically?

Sure, but that´s also the case now. Iowa and NH setting the case for one candidate, who normally wins the Supertuesday afterwards. This trend was strengthened by the Internet in recent years. Every state voting after Supertuesday is about meaningless ->strategic voting. So in my proposal the most efficient way to solve the problem you mentioned is to delay the release of the counted votes until the last region has voted (like in the case of early voting), so that a voter in the second and third region won´t be influenced.