Washington Secretary of State Debates Democratic County Chair on “Top-Two”
May 30th, 2008Here is an account of a debate held May 28 between Washington’s Secretary of State, and the chair of the Whatcom County Democratic Party, over the “top-two” election system that will be tried for the first time in Washington state this year. Thanks to Steve Rankin.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:31 am
NO need for ANY primaries. Save some taxpayer cash.
General election ballot access by EQUAL nominating petitions.
P.R. for legislative body elections.
A.V. for NONPARTISAN executive/judicial elections.
Difficult only for EVIL STUPID party hacks with Stone Age brains — i.e. the typical party hack politician since 4 July 1776.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
LD 40 appears to be around 65%D when the GOP bothers to run a candidate.
If there are 5 Democratics running for the LD 40 Senate seat, that means the incumbent is retiring or is term-limited. But the primary might see fewer voters, so under the old pick a party primary, the Democratics’ nominee might have the support of perhaps 10% of the vote, and with no runoff, and then would be elected again and again because of the D after the name.
I suspect that the Democratics county chairwoman may be realizing that she is not indispensible.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
What an asinine system- a step in the wrong direction.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Several candidates have said they prefer the “Democrat Party” while others say they prefer the “Democratic Party” there is one House contest where so far no one has filed with a preference for any other party, so there could be a battle between the Democrats and Democratics this fall.