Top-Two or Open Primary

Washington state has given us a test of the top-two or open primary. The results show that it works. The top-two vote-getters go onto the General Election.

The parties complained that under the top-two or open primary, they are being denied an opportunity to nominate the candidates they want. But what’s to keep them from having their own nomination process, then putting the winners of that process forward in the public elections?

If the parties want to act like private organizations that want their own nominating process closed to outsiders, they ought not to expect the state to conduct it for them at public expense.

Michael H. Drucker
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