I'm hoping that it would result in a lawsuit against the state for violating the Voting Rights Act by disenfranchising political minorities.
You see, Louisiana is a red state, so it's okay.
No, the reason I oppose California's primary and not Louisiana's has nothing to do with politics. The reason I'm OK with Louisiana's system is because a candidate who wins a majority in the primary wins the election, which means that they've still been elected from the entire field of candidates from every party. There's no general election/runoff unless there's no majority. In California, the top two candidates go to a general election, even if one candidate wins a majority in the primary. And California's system also bans write-in votes, which blatantly disenfranchises voters. I would be just as dissatisfied with a general election between two Republicans as one with two Democrats, because such a system is fundamentally unfair and undemocratic, disenfranchising members of every other party.
And California isn't a solidly blue state, either. They wouldn't have recalled Grey Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger if they were. Likewise, Kathleen Blanco, Mary Landrieu, and John Bel Edwards never would have been elected if Louisiana were a solidly red state.
