On April 19, the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party said it will try to persuade the state Democratic Party to let independent voters vote in Democratic primaries. Under the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut, parties have the right to decide for themselves whether to let independents vote in their primaries.
Florida is the only state in the south (unless Kentucky is considered a southern state) in which independents can’t vote in partisan primaries. If the state Democratic Party does decide to let independents vote in its primaries, that would put pressure on the Florida Republican Party to do the same thing.
The Mimai-Dade County Party idea is from the county party’s new chairman, Steve Simeonidis, who is an attorney. Thanks to Michael Drucker for this news.
Tashjian — SCOTUS MORONS at work.
Parties are factions/fractions of PUBLIC Electors/Voters — NOT independent empires.
IE – PUBLIC laws for nominations / primaries.
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NO primaries.
Equal nom pets/filing fees.
PR and AppV
For the record, Kentucky is a southern state.
Kentucky did not secede from the union in 1860 or 1861, so I think it is better classed as a border state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky
ex part of VA — a southern state.
Major battleground in 1861-1862 — esp. 8 Oct 1862 Battle of Perryville in eastern KY.
Louisiana does not have exclusionary partisan primaries. Florida should adopt Top 2, rather than this cynical ploy to maintain the status quo.
The Oklahoma Democrat Party has allowed Independents to participate in their primaries since 2016. There has been not the slightest bit of movement from the Oklahoma Republican Party to consider opening their primaries to Independents and the Oklahoma Libertarian Party which had always allowed Independents to participate in their primaries in the past chose to close their primaries to Independents in 2018. That said, Florida is much more balanced between the Democrats and Republicans than Oklahoma is and at least some of the motivation for the Libertarian Party to close their primary was due to the presence of one of the gubernatorial candidates who both objectionable to many party regulars and expected by some to have relatively strong support from Independents(currently he’s in federal custody awaiting sentencing in a murder-for-hire scheme).
Nobody should adopt Top 2 and California and Washington should abandon it.