Another push is under way for Top-Two primary elections in Arizona, with plans to put it before voters in 2016.
Former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson is heading a campaign that would put all candidates on one ballot for primary elections, regardless of party. The two candidates receiving the most votes would face off in the general election.
Johnson led the push to put the top-two system on the 2012 ballot, and voters rejected it by a two-to-one margin.
“The grassroots, nonpartisan movement is really a nationwide effort," Johnson said. "We’re not the only state that will be pushing this.”
Open Primaries, a group working with Johnson, is also pushing to put a top-two primary system for Florida's 2016 ballot.
CLICK HERE to find out what states Open Primaries is working with to get Open Primaries with Top-Two on their ballot.
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2 comments:
"Open primary" has been defined in several US Supreme Court decisions, and in political science textbooks, as a system in which voters aren't asked to choose a party on voter registration forms, so any voter is free to choose any party's primary ballot. The reporter who used the term "open primary" should not have done that. I realize you were just copying his terminology but you still shouldn't do that. Top-two proponents deliberately try to confuse people when they refer to a top-two system as an open primary.
I changed the heading of the post. The body does not mention open.
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