Posted on 06/02/2022 8:33:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ah, the good old days, when Democrats voted in Democrat primaries and Republicans voted in Republican primaries. Those registered to other parties voted for candidates who held conventions in IHOP restaurants. Not content with one-person, one-vote elections (even including the dead), Democrats used the pandemic to promote mail-in voting to ballot-harvest their way to suspiciously fraudulent victories.
Now some Democrats want more dubious election results with open primaries. Currently, 22 states have open primaries that allow crossover voting. Some Democrats plan to take full advantage of the opportunity.
Writing in "When Your Vote Doesn't Matter, Try Switching Ballots," Jonathan Robinson and Sean Trende argue that "if your party is going to lose, you can at least have a say in how it loses."
In places where electoral competition is lacking, primary elections by and large decide political outcomes. Voters in those places are accustomed to participating in their own party's primaries. But often the opposite party's primary is more competitive and more consequential. So why not strategically vote in the other party's primary?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It’s not “democracy” unless the Democrat Party wins.
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The difference between democrats and republicans is that republicans are stupid and democrats are evil
Anyone who really believes RATs are not going to openly cheat and shoot the finger to the American people is totally delusional.
They have almost gotten what they want which is global power for the WEF and they aren’t going to give it up by some election getting in their way.
If they are to be stopped, the polls aren’t where it could be done. Those other options are almost going to be disappeared very soon.
One of the most stupid ideas ever implemented, who ever thought that letting non-party members chose your candidates for the general elections needs to be drawn and quartered
I have never understood the premise of “open primaries.” Primaries should be controlled by political parties to select their nominees, not who other parties want to run in another party!!
This is so simple to fix. Congress should require state election law to declare a cut-off date to register for the upcoming election, with no changes allowed (except death) until after the election; including any primary elections.
There should be no such thing as a state-sponsored/funded primary election. This should be entirely a matter for the political parties, whether by convention, caucuses, or online elections funded and run by the parties themselves. States should sponsor, run and fund ONLY the final ballot.
My belief is that there is a direct line between ‘open’ primaries and the ‘General Elections’ in some states (California) where it ends up being between ‘D’onkey candidates of Tweetle-Dee and Tweetle-Dum.
I am against both as it vitiates the opposition voting concept for perpetual majority rule! If you want to vote in a party primary, change your registration in the prior year!
I think it was the machines. There wasn’t any liberal movement to vote for them.
Uhhhhh chit! Wyoming is a given to that war monger witch!! Who the hell voted for open primaries? ....that is the most sickening stupid thing ever. Do the Democrats also have open primaries? I doubt it they’re more conniving than that. This is one reason why Kemp won the primary in Georgia ....now we’re looking at another term for Cheney. If they can’t use the fraud machines they’ll use boots on the ground. Why am I not surprised?! Because we dwell in the party of stupid.
Yeah, this has to stop
Basically, the Dims are making a regular habit of doing their version of Operation Chaos.
Republicans have used open primaries to mess around with the Dem’s elections, too. I remember in 1998 Geoffrey Fieger was running for Governor in the Democrat primary. John Engler was running unopposed on the Republican side, so many of us crossed over and voted for Fieger in the Dem primary. Fieger won the primary and was crushed in the general.
It’s by design... its not a flaw, it’s a well designed feature.
Repealing the 17th Amendment would remove the powers from the parties and lobbyists.. restoring the checks and balances on the Senate and reign in Fedzilla.
Our Founding Fathers were not stupid
Open primaries have to be the STUPIDest thing EVER CONCEIVED and carried out.
That and MAIL-In_VOTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why should Congress be involved in any of that?
Why can’t the state legislatures do that themselves?
Why? Because they don’t want to, that’s why. Open primaries allow certain folks to continue to get elected(Graham) and others. It allows the state party apparatus to set up a “vote for him/her or the Democrat will win” scenario. Or, a way to keep certain folks out, like the Barbour’s did in Mississippi when they were able to send Cochran back, one last time, in lieu of McDaniel. Cochran had to be led around the building he was so out of it. And no one cared.
Then again, it can’t all be blamed on crossover voting. As was just seen in Georgia, there are plenty of morons that can’t think for themselves. The problems aren’t on their front lawn, so it isn’t a problem. Until it’s too late. As it will be in Georgia in the very near future.
Republicans everyehere need to make the open primary menace their first target for eliniation. No excuse for the delay.
The problem is essentially a First Amendment issue. People have freedom of association, bu the corollary is freedom from association, the right to exclude people from a group or party. Traditionally, the South was run by Democrats. So, winning the Democratic nomination made that person a shoe-in to win in November. The courts ended the party’s right to exclude voters from primaries as part of desegregation and civil rights protections. So, the present situation results from good intentions resulting in the government micro-managing political affiliation.
The problem today is that we have too much government controlling primary election, and that couples with things like “sore loser” laws that attempt to prohibit someone who lost a primary election from running in the general election, either as an independent, or as the nominee for another party. RINOs using Dem votes to “win” a primary election need to be abandoned in favor of competing independent or third party candidates. Just don’t let the RINOs win with the usual lesser of two evils strategy.
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