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Junior Chimp
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« on: February 27, 2021, 04:44:37 AM » |
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All great points and I like your suggestions for solutions. To me it's just as much an issue that if the general public are expected to participate in primaries they have little say in the process as they don't elect party executives and obviously don't vote for state legislative candidates based on primary policy.
One thing about 3) - it's more likely to lead to wasted votes for candidates. It's wrong to assume, for example, all Buttigieg voters wanted Biden, as they may have wanted a younger candidate. But your ranked choice solution might work.
Leadership elections for parties in other countries tend to be all mail-in/online, and closed. I like that in the UK Labour Party there is a distinction between registering as a supporter of that party and a member, with both able to vote in leadership elections. Of course with primary elections the way they are in the US there would be few advantages to being a member.
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