New York has one of the most archaic primaries in the nation. Not only is it one of only 11 states with closed primaries, no.... that's the way it's supposed to be stooopid!!! i don't want RATS having a say as to who my candidate is
Wonder who arranged the clusterf*ck??? Hmmmmmmmmmm.....
There’s no thread for percentages in.
Is it only Democrats who are having trouble voting?
Hard to be sympathetic to the willfully ignorant.
What NY is running is a very fair process. I don’t like the situations where party members don’t have primaries to vote for candidates. Open primaries are an equally bad idea, at the other extreme. It seems totally reasonable that a person should have to be a member of a political party a month (or more) before the primary. That way, the party has time to make sure every party member has equal access to information about how delegate selection will be done. Another benefit is there can’t be any mischief such as “vote for the worst” or what happened to steal that nomination for Cochran.
——They’re iced out as well.——
well, no
they chose not to be involved in the primary process
they are independents
the process is difficult to weed out the riff raff
Oh, the horror, you actually have to be registered in a political party to decide that party’s nominee!
Heck, why even require U.S. citizenship to vote in the election? U.S. policy affects other countries, right, so just let everybody vote! Let them do it by e-mail from Zimbabwe if they want to.
Why should you even be limited to vote in only one primary for that matter? Everyone should get to vote in both the Democrat and Republican primaries. And you should get to vote in all 50 states too. It’s demoCRAZY!
Obama and the Democrats/Republicans in Congress have set the tone for law enforcement and discipline in the country. The “new tone” is one of slackness, blatant lawlessness, and no accountability.
I think that the premise of this article is bogus. Political Parties can select their party nominee in any number of ways, subject to certain rules about gaining to each state’s ballot and certification that the nominee is qualified for the Office of the President. No one has a right to vote for a party nominee, although a state political party may choose to hold a primary election, and then may choose how to conduct the election subject to state laws.
Recall that Ross Perot run as an Independent in 1992 and used a grass roots organization to get his name on the ballot in all 50 states. There were no primaries. In 1995, Perot formed the Reform Party, but they did not have a convention, and they held a primary based on mailed ballots to those who had qualified as members of the Reform Party. Perot was nominated and once again, he qualified for the ballot on all 50 states, although in some states, he had to file as an Independent.
We tolerate this government/political party conspiracy for the purposes of having a state wide primary, but it’s not required and voters really don’t have any rights to participate in the process. Interestingly, everyone used to understand that the primaries were really just “beauty contests” that did not bind the parties or the delegates to their convention. We now have a later generation who believe that they have a right to vote for the candidate of their choice in a primary and that their political party is obligated to nominate whomever the primary voters selected. That has always been a fiction, but was encouraged by the parties who wanted to present unity to the TV audience at the national conventions. Of course, the real outcome has been to plant a false expectation among voters, decimate the TV ratings, and reduce the powers of the political parties. The liberals and the media have be the beneficiaries of this evolution of our election process.
What’s the problem? It’s a closed primary. In NYC, to vote you have to choose a party when you register. If your party is not running a candidate, you don’t get to vote. I switched my party to vote for Guiliani - I had been a registered Democrat simply to vote for the less left-wing mayoral candidates during primary season (Ed Koch, that means you). When Guiliani ran, I switched my party affiliation. Now, I’m going to have to switch back from I to R so I can vote for Trump in the primary in NJ.
Lyin’ Ted must be up to his old tricks again
Strange hours but it’s their choice......
Primary Elections
In New York City and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam and Erie,
POLLS OPEN AT 6 AM - CLOSE AT 9 PM.
In all other counties,
POLLS OPEN AT 12 NOON and CLOSE AT 9 PM.
General Election
POLLS OPEN AT 6 AM - CLOSE AT 9 PM
http://www.elections.ny.gov/FAQ.html
New York has one of the most archaic primaries in the nation. Not only is it one of only 11 states with closed primaries, no.... that's the way it's supposed to be stooopid!!! i don't want RATS having a say as to who my candidate is