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Thursday, May 24, 2012

CA Has New and Improved Primary This Year

We learned today California has a new and improved primary as well as November vote for elected officials.  Here's the way it will go down:

First the primary is an open primary and the privacy of voters is maintained no matter what they select as their party in the primary.

Second, no matter how many votes the top vote getter's end up with in the primary, they will face an opponent in the November election by the person who got the next largest number of votes regardless of party.  Could be two people from the same or opposing parties but no more having elections decided in the primary.

To my knowledge this is the first state to adopt this approach in deciding elected officials.  It will make it a horse race all the way to November and it will give people a choice in both the primary and general elections.

Posted by Paul Alldredge at 4:30 PM

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousThursday, May 24, 2012 8:18:00 PM

    You must think incumbents really want opposition and have to dicuss their records and defend them beyond the usual blather. I think they would pale at the mere mention of having to face an opponent in the November general elections.

    The repub leadership would dispose of this even if the voters approved of it just like they did term limits. It took them less than 10 minutes to undo a people's initiative in the first hour of the session.

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