The Arizona Daily Sun of Flagstaff assembled a panel of six informed citizens, none of them elected officials, to discuss various ideas for election reform. They were Harriet Young, Joy Staveley, Holly Taylor, Carl Taylor, Dick Monroe, and Ann Heitland. See their responses. Question four concerns top-two primaries and whether Arizona ought to have one. See here.
Arizona so close to California that they can see the mess Top Two makes here so not surprisingly the panel mostly opposed. Good on them!
An “informed” citizen would not write “Schwarzenegger got that through the Republican legislature years ago”
This “informed citizen” is the vice chair of the county Democratic party. Another is the vice chair of the county Republican party. One is a former county supervisor (2006-2014) and his wife. Another admits that she is obsessed by politics.
The panel was made up of partisan hacks.
Jim Riley is correct, however, Gov. Schwarzenegger did support implementation of Top Two here in California and still to this day supports this atrocious primary system.
Please, no “Top Two” system!
SF and Oakland have, and Maine is implementing, a “top one” system, where only one civic group wins guaranteed 100% of the time, a threshold of 50% (plus one vote).
A “top two” system guarantees a threshold of 33.33% (plus one vote), for each of three candidates only two can achieve 33.33% (plus one vote) but as more candidates get ballot access then random votes slit off and the split-vote problem can elect candidates with less than 33.33% (plus one vote).
The first item is strongly supported by CoFOE, BAN, FairVote and Free and Equal while the second item is opposed by them.
For me, I prefer the reverse, and I also believe that multiple-winner districts of two are an improvement for the whole of California. Us men are uniting to support of opposite gender before our own and this teamwork seems to be supported by women. But it’s only possible in two-member districts so that’s in line with our policy to prohibit single-winner districts and seems like a good step in the right direction.
The United Coalition has been using pure proportional representation (PPR) correctly for more than twenty-three consecutive years and by prohibiting the single-winner districts we’ve been able to excel in attracting team players.
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Ah… Top One. The most efficient electoral method since divine right of kings!
Top One in how many State primaries — SINCE 1888-1890 ???
— aka party hack EXTREMISTS
— GETTING ON GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS.
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NO PRIMARIES.
PR AND APPV