Arizona State Senator Eva Diaz (D-Tolleson) has introduced HB 2844. It says that if two or more independent candidates file for the same office, they must face each other in a non-partisan primary, and whichever of them wins is the only independent candidate who can run in November.

The concept behind the bill seems to be a belief that all independent voters are associated together with each other, but this is false. Independent voters, collectively, have nothing in common with each other in the sense that members of a party have some beliefs in common.

The bill would not apply to presidential independent candidates.