The Jan 6th committee is working on that and also working on keeping Trump off the 2024 ticket
Posted on 06/06/2022 3:37:30 PM PDT by cotton1706
Some Republican activists are calling for abolishing Georgia’s open primary system, complaining that too many Democrats crossed over to vote in the state’s GOP primary against candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
That call to close primaries comes after an Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago crossed over to cast ballots in the May 24 Republican primary. The five statewide GOP incumbents whom Trump had targeted for defeat — including Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — ended up winning their primary elections.
The proposal is likely to face heavy opposition, with top Republicans and Democrats signaling Monday that they see no reason to change Georgia’s open primary system. Like 14 other states, Georgia does not register voters by party. Voters can choose which primary to take part in as they walk up to the polls and switch back-and-forth in subsequent elections without changing their registration.
David Clark, a Republican state House member, and Colton Moore, a Republican state Senate candidate, said they would introduce bills in next year’s legislative session seeking to hold back crossover voting. They appeared at a news conference with Republican Vernon Jones, a Trump-backed congressional candidate facing a June 21 runoff against a challenger who Jones contends solicited Democrats to vote for him.
Moore, who faces no Democratic opposition in November for a state Senate seat in the northwest Georgia suburbs of Chattanooga, Tennessee, said parties should not be forced to associate with people who don’t share their views.
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We want the REPUBLICAN electorate choosing the REPUBLICAN nominees.
Ca peesh?
Otherwise, this is calling the game in the sixth inning, a trend which is getting tiresome.
Closed primaries are the ONLY way we are going to clean up the GOP Senate.
#SetRichDidntKillHimself
Yep. Always count on RATs to be dishonest. You’ll never go wrong.
Democrats making a mockery of elections , when will they end elections
there should be NO open primaries anywhere, either democrat or republican. NO democrat should be allowed to vote in a Republican primary he has not changed his registration less than one year prior to the primary.
Never understood the logic of an open primary to be honest.
Well I live in a one-party state (CA) and just voted in the open primary. There were NO GOP candidates on the ballot at all for my congressional representative (district 10). Only one Dem and one Green. I wrote in a suggested name from the CA college republican recommendation. Sigh.
Open primaries are anarchy. If people want to vote in a party’s primary, register.
The GOP-e wanted open primaries so they could eliminate conservative opposition.
ALL primaries should be closed.
WRITE IN ELECTION.
Georgians have a right to vote for the person they want, regardless of who won the primary.
The Jan 6th committee is working on that and also working on keeping Trump off the 2024 ticket
A republican should run as a democrat. Two can play this game
Some of you are relying on this “early Constitution.” But we have moved on, and many of us have adopted a living constitution that doesn’t recognize those outdated clauses, like gun rights and freedom of religion, and states’ rights [to ban abortion, or whatever other anti-progressive measures they keep trying to adopt].
cheaters gonna cheat. democrats are cheaters
But Georgia doesnt have party registration
Having state conventions like in the bad old days couldn’t do worse!
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