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Some in Ga. GOP want closed primaries after Trump picks lose
therecord.com ^ | 6/6/22 | Jeff Amy

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at therecord.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; election2022; election2024; elections; electionz; electionzzz; elekchunz; georgia; jeffamy; openprimaries
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Not complicated.

We want the REPUBLICAN electorate choosing the REPUBLICAN nominees.

Ca peesh?

1 posted on 06/06/2022 3:37:30 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
Trump's election choices didn't "lose" until "Brain" Kemp and Ratt Rattenspewer take office in 2023.

Otherwise, this is calling the game in the sixth inning, a trend which is getting tiresome.

2 posted on 06/06/2022 3:40:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: cotton1706

Closed primaries are the ONLY way we are going to clean up the GOP Senate.


3 posted on 06/06/2022 3:40:25 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: cotton1706
The Dims wanted closed primaries after 2008's Operation Chaos kept Hillary in the hunt longer than the Dim central planners wanted in their rigged "primary".

#SetRichDidntKillHimself

4 posted on 06/06/2022 3:40:31 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: cotton1706

Yep. Always count on RATs to be dishonest. You’ll never go wrong.


5 posted on 06/06/2022 3:41:40 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cotton1706

Democrats making a mockery of elections , when will they end elections


6 posted on 06/06/2022 3:42:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: cotton1706
I will never understand, if I live to be 125, why any Republican would accept an open primary. It is just begging for leftist subterfuge.
7 posted on 06/06/2022 3:42:20 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: cotton1706

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.


8 posted on 06/06/2022 3:42:46 PM PDT by euram
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To: cotton1706

Never understood the logic of an open primary to be honest.


9 posted on 06/06/2022 3:47:01 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Shadow44

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.


10 posted on 06/06/2022 3:49:58 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: Shadow44

Open primaries are anarchy. If people want to vote in a party’s primary, register.


11 posted on 06/06/2022 3:52:31 PM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: euram

The GOP-e wanted open primaries so they could eliminate conservative opposition.


12 posted on 06/06/2022 3:56:40 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: cotton1706

ALL primaries should be closed.


13 posted on 06/06/2022 3:59:56 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: cotton1706

WRITE IN ELECTION.

Georgians have a right to vote for the person they want, regardless of who won the primary.


14 posted on 06/06/2022 4:01:46 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: butlerweave
Democrats making a mockery of elections , when will they end elections

The Jan 6th committee is working on that and also working on keeping Trump off the 2024 ticket

15 posted on 06/06/2022 4:02:04 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: cotton1706

A republican should run as a democrat. Two can play this game


16 posted on 06/06/2022 4:07:21 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Pollard

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].


17 posted on 06/06/2022 4:14:50 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: cotton1706

cheaters gonna cheat. democrats are cheaters


18 posted on 06/06/2022 4:21:51 PM PDT by DOC44 ( )
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To: cotton1706

But Georgia doesnt have party registration


19 posted on 06/06/2022 4:22:35 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Having state conventions like in the bad old days couldn’t do worse!


20 posted on 06/06/2022 4:24:14 PM PDT by Reily
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