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People, not parties, focus of new primary
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 20, 2008 02:57pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Thursday, March 20, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Here’s how it will work: All candidates for federal, state and local offices (except Pierce County, which will still have instant runoff voting for county offices), will appear on the August primary ballot. Each will be listed along with the party he or she prefers.
The parties can endorse candidates, and that information can be included in campaign materials and the voters pamphlet. But the parties can’t decide which candidates run, and they can’t prevent candidates from saying they consider themselves a Republican or a Democrat.
Voters will then do what they did in Washington before the political parties started suing them: They will vote for the candidate they like the best. That might be a Democrat for Congress and a Republican for the Legislature, all on the same primary ballot.
The two candidates who collect the most votes in the primary will advance to the runoff election in November. In almost every case, that will be one Republican and one Democrat. But sometimes it will be two Democrats or two Republicans or even a Libertarian or a Green party candidate. |
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