The New York Times has this story about California’s top-two system, with emphasis on the point that it sometimes shuts out a major party from having a candidate on the November ballot, even though that major party might have the potential to win that election in another type of system.
ANY NYT stories about —
NO primaries
PR and AppV — pending Condorcet ???
Top Two wouldn’t be bad if they actually made it two round, instead of primary -> general…. it should be party primary -> first round (with only one candidate from each party + unaffiliated) -> Second round with top-two from first round…. aka the French system.
Demo Rep…. to think about it correctly, this really is a no primary election…. It’s two round with out a whittling down of party’s candidates to only one candidate. Round 1 is everybody, Round 2 is the top two vote getters from the first round…. You should love this. I guess if they got rid of the party labels then you wouldn’t complain?
NO primaries = ONE round = ONE *election*
This LA Times article lays out top-two’s weaknesses and proposes an alternative — a “top-four” primary with ranked-choice voting in the general election. It would seem to alleviate top-two’s problems while retaining its intended benefits.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-gumbel-open-primary-20180518-story.html