Posted on 10/10/2024 11:51:25 AM PDT by JohnRLott
Two constitutional initiatives to change how Montanans vote will be on the ballot in November, and both are deceptive. Two of them will help Democrats and ensure, ironically, despite supporters’ claims, that election winners are not likely to have a majority of the total votes cast.
Supporters sell CI-126 as giving voters more choices in primary elections. Montana is already an “open” primary state where voters can choose whether they want a Republican or Democrat ballot, but this initiative would allow people to vote for a Democrat in one race and then a Republican in another one. These are called “jungle primaries.”
But that isn’t the key aspect of this initiative. The important point is that each race’s top four vote-getters will make it to the general election. In a heavily Republican state such as Montana or Alaska, which adopted this rule in 2022, this reform will help the minority party.
In heavily Republican areas, you will be more likely to have three Republicans and one Democrat in the general election. If Republicans divide the vote among themselves, it may allow a Democrat to sneak through. It’s no coincidence that in 2022, heavily Republican Alaska elected its first Democrat to the U.S. Congress since the early 1970s. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at missoulian.com ...
Hopefully these initiatives don't pass.
Was wondering when someone would catch on to this.
Montana and Arizona have these kind of initiatives on the ballot. They’re both a recipe for Rat dominance.
If you have a party, no one but registered party members should be voting in your primary.
The Democrats didn’t even let Democrats vote for their current Presidential candidate.
CI-127 allows for a ranked choice election in the general election, this would eliminate the danger of a 3 way split among Republicans allowing a Democrat to win.
Prop 133 opposes that initiate. Arizona voters PAY ATTENTION!!
This never works for conservatives due basically to naivety or just plain old fashioned stupidity of so many conservative voters.
Liberals will NEVER vote for any conservative NO MATTER WHAT.
However often conservatives will vote for a liberal out of some kind of misguided notion “fairness”.
Don’t do it!
Virginia does and democrats use it to get a weak Republican as the nominee.
So called open elections lead to one party rule and closed elections. The USA ran with that experiment right after Washington retired and it almost lead to a Civil War, it did get Hamilton his just deserts.
Did you actually read the piece? It discusses the impact of CI-127.
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