The San Jose Mercury News has this op-ed by Marcela Miranda-Prieto, advocating that California change its top-two system to a top-five system.
Unfortunately, she says that restoring party nominees to California elections would mean that independent voters could no longer vote in California primaries. This is not true. Restoring party nominees could include a law letting independents choose a partisan primary ballot. Or California could switch to a classic open primary, in which any voter could choose any party’s primary.
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Top 5 is better than Top Two but it would still be preferable to restore the previous process in Californis which each qualified party had its own primary and then from this had a candidate who proceeded to the general election ballot and in which independent candidate petitioned their way onto general election ballots.