[Repeal The 17th]

RE: 35%
I don’t understand how the proposed language solves the problem.

If 3 people run in the primary and each gets 33% of the vote...now, what?
If 4 people run in the primary and each gets 25% of the vote...now, what?
etc.
Why don’t they just say that the top 2 vote-getters proceed to a run-off?

[iowamark]

If this bill as currently written becomes law, however, the top two finishers in a primary would face one another in a run-off election held four weeks after the primary. This would apply to primaries for statewide and federal office in Iowa as well as county elections.

Under current Iowa law, if nobody gets 35% in the primary, a nominating convention picks the candidate. Rep. David Young, Iowa CD-3, finished fifth in the June 2014 primary but was nominated at the convention.