An Oregon initiative called the “Voter Fairness Act” will begin to circulate soon. It would amend the State Constitution to say that there should be a system in which parties must either nominate by convention, or participate in a primary that is open to all voters. A party would decide 250 days before an election whether it wants to have nominees, but if it does, it can only nominate them by convention at its own expense. If it doesn’t want to do that, its candidates would run in a May primary in which candidates from all the non-convention parties would run. It would be up to the legislature to choose how many primary candidates would advance to the general election.
Here is the text, which is proposal 55.
The better way to go to, if you want an open primary, is to go to the way Alaska used to do their primary. Every party is on one ballot, but each party still nominates their own nominee. See the Alaskan Democratic–Libertarian–Independence primary in 2016 for US House of Reps as an example; slightly modify it to require all parties (including Republicans) and to include Independents. You then take the top two independents plus the nominees of each party. Then for the general election you still use instant run off.
If that system were used in 2022 then the individuals on the general election ballot would have been Democrat Mary Peltola, Republican Sarah Palin, Libertarian Chris Bye, Independents Lady Donna Dutchess and Sherry Strizak, and American Independent (technically a party) Robert Ornelas. Nick Begich III would not have advanced because he was a Republican who came in second behind Palin.
In 2024, that system would have seen Democrat Mary Peltola, Republican Nick Begich III, Independence Party John Wayne Howe, Independents Lady Donna Dutchess and David Ambrose, and No Labels Richard Grayson in the general election (which would use IRV).
To further elaborate on my prior comment, take the 2022 US House special election as another example. The general election ballot, after the primary I suggested above, would have had Republican Sarah Palin, Democrat Mary Peltola, Independents Al Gross and Santa Claus, Libertarian Chris Bye, Independence Party John Howe, and American Independent Robert Ornelas. Yes, you skip over all of the Democrats, Republican, and Independents that finished above Chris Bye, John Howe and Robert Ornelas, because every party should have their own nominee. You’re disenfranchising members of those parties otherwise.
NOOO extremist primaries
ONE genl Election Day –
equal ballot access via equal nom pets / filing fees
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Why a constitutional amendment?
Another retarded idea by communist Aiden.
Can anyone explain why ballot censorship is not fascist?
@”Aiden is a fucking retard”…. Cute; at least I use my brain and offer possible alternatives and inventive ideas to problems, as opposed to you who just demonizes and throws ad hominems.
How about you pick up a book and try to wire two neurons together… Here, consider this: https://ippr-org.files.svdcdn.com/production/Downloads/Devising-an-electoral-system-for-the-21st-century_1773.pdf?dm=1702047454
or this:
https://www.learnliberty.org/blog/trade-deficit-the-most-misunderstood-number-in-economics/
Can anyone explain why you think everything is fascist? Are you obsessed with that word?
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