Here is an account of a debate held May 28 between Washington’s Secretary of State, and the chair of the Whatcom County Democratic Party, over the “top-two” election system that will be tried for the first time in Washington state this year. Thanks to Steve Rankin.
NO need for ANY primaries. Save some taxpayer cash.
General election ballot access by EQUAL nominating petitions.
P.R. for legislative body elections.
A.V. for NONPARTISAN executive/judicial elections.
Difficult only for EVIL STUPID party hacks with Stone Age brains — i.e. the typical party hack politician since 4 July 1776.
LD 40 appears to be around 65%D when the GOP bothers to run a candidate.
If there are 5 Democratics running for the LD 40 Senate seat, that means the incumbent is retiring or is term-limited. But the primary might see fewer voters, so under the old pick a party primary, the Democratics’ nominee might have the support of perhaps 10% of the vote, and with no runoff, and then would be elected again and again because of the D after the name.
I suspect that the Democratics county chairwoman may be realizing that she is not indispensible.
What an asinine system- a step in the wrong direction.
Several candidates have said they prefer the “Democrat Party” while others say they prefer the “Democratic Party” there is one House contest where so far no one has filed with a preference for any other party, so there could be a battle between the Democrats and Democratics this fall.