Comments on: Kentucky Bill to Let Independent Voters Vote in Partisan Primaries http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/01/19/kentucky-bill-to-let-independent-voters-vote-in-partisan-primaries/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4662 By: Paul Hosse http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/01/19/kentucky-bill-to-let-independent-voters-vote-in-partisan-primaries/comment-page-1/#comment-668802 Paul Hosse Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:44:20 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=4830#comment-668802 Rep Gerald Neal (D) is also a co-sponser of this legislation. Independents here in Kentucky should, in my opinion, be allowed to partisipate in Primaries. Rep Gerald Neal (D) is also a co-sponser of this legislation. Independents here in Kentucky should, in my opinion, be allowed to partisipate in Primaries.

]]> By: Steve Rankin http://www.ballot-access.org/2009/01/19/kentucky-bill-to-let-independent-voters-vote-in-partisan-primaries/comment-page-1/#comment-639568 Steve Rankin Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:40:20 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/?p=4830#comment-639568 To my knowledge, Arizona's Democrats and Republicans are the only parties that are letting state law intimidate them into allowing independents into their primaries. AZ's Libertarians won a federal suit in 2007 that lets them block independents from their primaries. Under a state attorney general's opinion, Nebraska gives independents their choice of primary in congressional elections. This is because independents are able to vote in the "nonpartisan primary" for the state legislature, which, of course, is elected on a nonpartisan basis. To my knowledge, Arizona’s Democrats and Republicans are the only parties that are letting state law intimidate them into allowing independents into their primaries. AZ’s Libertarians won a federal suit in 2007 that lets them block independents from their primaries.

Under a state attorney general’s opinion, Nebraska gives independents their choice of primary in congressional elections. This is because independents are able to vote in the “nonpartisan primary” for the state legislature, which, of course, is elected on a nonpartisan basis.

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