Opinion of taking party membership off of ballots

[SteveRogers]

For local positions, especially local judges? Sure. For everything else, no.

Parties occur naturally and inevitably in any legislative body. Party labels can be a useful (though imperfect) heuristic for lower-information voters.  The alternative tends to be low-information voters picking names at random. Even in Nebraska the candidates are endorsed and advocated for by the two major parties. There are ways that our two party system could be reformed, but pretending that parties don’t exist isn’t one of them.