Political Scientist Seth Masket Defends Closed Primaries

Political scientist Seth Masket in this article defends closed primaries. The article is unusually useful because he was already in an on-line twitter debate, so he includes the points raised by opponents of closed primaries, and then he reacts to each one.


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Political Scientist Seth Masket Defends Closed Primaries — 7 Comments

  1. He starts with a premise that the state should organize partisan nominations, and maintain records of the political beliefs of its citizens.

  2. Actually, it was a pretty decent albeit brief article. It should be noted that he also included a not unfavorable sentence about joining “third” parties.

  3. Parties ought to be able to pick their nominees by any method they choose. But they shouldn’t have that process subsidized by taxpayers.

  4. There is only one legitimate voting system and no ballot qualified parties use it.

    The United Coalition consists of individuals who are outsiders, and new splinter parties sustained in the United Coalition are not able to access the ballot and are blocked by every party who does have ballot access.

    So we need to light a fire and allow regular people to access the ballot, with the freedom to pick any word by their name that they need to attract votes to their name.

    I know of no party that is looking for the interest of the whole. They are all biased against regular people and new ideas.

    Our team had higher principles and we’ve been demonstrating the inter-party collaboration among individuals shut out by the established political partied for more than twenty-three consecutive years and our requirements are not negotiable with anyone unless our terms and interests are protected.

    http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html

  5. Under Top 2, political parties are free to support candidates for office. They can recruit candidates, they can provide financial support, they can organize voters, etc. There is no reason for the state to anoint certain political groups with “nomination” rights.

  6. If we used RCV for the general election, then primaries would not be needed at all. Parties could use their own internal process to decide tactics and endorsements.

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