[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””There are structural issues that go against conservative candidates. For example, open primaries and ranked choice voting. There are other structural issues that allow for election fraud such as vote by mail, ballot harvesting, etc.
Since elections are mostly financed by the state, if a state decides either by initiative or legislation to adopt these policies, then there is really no recourse.”””

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It is my understanding that whether to have ‘open or closed primaries’ are decided by the political party in each state.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

That's not universally correct. In California we have open primaries because we voted it in.

Because the parties are too cheap to run their own primaries, they are at the whim of the state on how to run them.

One would think that the parties would be against this and would have fought hard to prevent it, even the Dems. However, the leadership of both parties prefers open primaries as it tends to eliminate controversial candidates who are "too liberal" or "too conservative" for their liking.

Here is a link to what happened in California. It is more complicated than I had thought, but it's a quick one page read:

History of California Primaries