Arizona Secretary of State Michelle Reagan, a Republican, says she wants the legislature to pass a bill ending taxpayer support for administering presidential primaries. Legislative leaders say they agree with her, and will soon introduce such a bill. Inevitably, this would mean there would be caucuses instead of presidential primaries in Arizona, because the parties could not afford to administer presidential primaries on their own.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Good! The major arties should pay for their own primaries! Independent voters & 3rd Party members should not have to support
primaries of the 2 big ones!
No primaries, caucuses and conventions of EXTREMIST robot party hacks.
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ONLY equal nominating petitions for general election ballot access.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Utter garbage by this “elected official” She wants to end the rights of people to have any say in the future choice of Presidents. Both major parties and one 3rd party are holding primaries this year likely for the last time. After that Arizona will go back to the past where party leaders choose.
Proposed new caption(s)
SCOTUS Rule 19 certified question
Definition of natural born citizen
Original Proceedings
Mandamus
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Second 15- xxxx (new filing to open the enrollment lock box for Trump primary voters in NYS and various other states nationally)
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“In re: Donald J. Trump”
Bob G., no rights are infringed. Parties can pay for their own independent, private organizations’ costs. “People” can still participate through caucuses of parties. Explain how you think party leaders will choose candidates?
Arizona should hold an open presidential primary on the first Tuesday in February. An application for candidacy would include the names of 11 sponsors. If all 11 are registered with the same party, their party affiliation may appear on the ballot.
Candidates who receive 1% of the vote would advance to the second round. Other candidates, or new candidates may qualify by a supplementary petition that meets the 1% threshold.
The second round would be on the 1st Tuesday in June, and a 5% threshold would be required to advance.
The third round would be on the 1st Tuesday in September, with a 15% threshold.
The general election in November, with a runoff if necessary in December.
If other states passed similar laws, the Arizona SOS would be authorized to participate in an interstate primary, where popular votes are tallied among states.
The cost of running a private election is not the only issue — maybe not even the most important issue. There’s also election integrity to consider. The results of primaries administered by party regulars should always be somewhat suspect.
Bob, well that’s a problem for the primary parties and their members…and not those of other voters such as independents/non-affiliates and 3rd party affiliates.
If majority party regulars can’t be trusted then why should we allow them to even be a part of leadership at the local, state or national level?
Brad M., in my opinion, the fairness of the candidate selection process within each party is of concern to everyone, not just to the members of that party. But I’m aware that not everyone agrees with me.
What she suggested was the the Republican, Democratic, and Green Party primaries should be done away with. Instead party officals would run their own caucuses under the old Iowa style. Meaning if we showed up at the local caucuses it would not really be to vote for President but simply to elect delegates to the next round. Under that type of system local leaders are likely to be the ones advancing thru each round of the caucuses regardless of who they say they support at the moment. So in essence like Iowa used to be showing up at those local events really would be nothing but a waste of time. I vote in every primary but under that party caucus system i would not even bother to show up since i would only be voting to advance delegates i would have no assurance would even support the candidate i did at the next level.
Her simple answer could have been to allow Independents to vote in the Republican,Democratic, or Green party primaries or even the Libs one if that party would decide to hold a primary instead of party selection. Instead she proposed to the State house to do away with all direct voting for Presidents.
“I’m not advocating for a caucus system. I’m advocating for the taxpayers to not have to pony up 10 million bucks when everyone can’t participate,” Reagan said.
The bill, which has passed the House and has been sent to the Senate, would ELIMINATE the presidential preference election and leave the future of choosing the nominee to the political parties. So they not only DO NOT want Independents to vote…they DON”T want any of you to vote. They want to decide for you…I’m sure they will have your best interest in mind. pfffft