Markos Moulitsas, the founder and publisher of Daily Kos, has an article in The Hill, he calls "No One Wins with ‘Top Two’.
He writes:
Empirical results show that the top-two system is a failure. What it means is that today, parties must limit the number of candidates who run in primaries. So rather than having an honest intra-party debate on who can best represent a district, the parties have to arm-twist candidates out of the race, lest they risk the opposition capturing the top two slots.
In other words, the top-two system limits political participation; it doesn’t expand it.
Most importantly, the top-two system kills voter participation. When arguing for top-two, advocates said that California’s 30 percent turnout in primaries was a sign that the existing system was broken. Well, after implementing it, turnout last year was at 18 percent. If 30 percent was bad, 18 percent is objectively far worse.
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