• sugar_in_your_tea
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I kind of agree here. I think we should have a “playoff” system where candidates could pick a party for advertising purposes, but otherwise compete on an open playing field with all other candidates.

      Here’s how I’d like it to work:

      • ban all political ads, outside of informing when the next debate or rally will happen
      • all debates are funded with tax-payer dollars
      • for House seats, vote by party for the general election, and Reps would be elected proportionally and based on primary votes
      • Senate seats work as they currently do, except for the voting system change below
      • all votes are some kind of IRV system, e.g. ranked choice, approval, etc
      • there would be a vote after each primary debate (should have 3-5 of those), and if you don’t participate, your previous votes carry forward through the primary process; candidates are eliminated if they go under some threshold; you could straight-ticket this, but it would weight all candidates from your party equally

      This probably needs to be refined, but I think the general approach is worth discussing.

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          Lol. Ranked choice isn’t my first pick, but I think it’s an improvement. I’d prefer a bigger change than just the vote counting system though.

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      1 year ago

      Independent is a party, you probably mean unafilliated, but in CO, unafilliated voters are able to vote in either R or D primaries, though not both.

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          Unaffiliated makes sense to be able to vote for whoever in a primary, but if you are party affiliated, why should you get to vote in a primary for the party you’re not affiliated with? You made a choice on who you support, and registered it with the state, unlike unaffiliated voters.