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[quote=Anonymous]I think King's figures show that the problem of apathy is much greater than the closed primary problem, especially since anyone can register as a Democrat if they wish.

Nevertheless, I think that party labels in DC tell so little about the candidate that it would be better, as Jeff said, to follow CA and have a single primary with the general election a run-off between the top two.  I would go a step further, and have preference voting, where each voter ranks the candidates, and there is a series of counts, where the lowest ranked at each stage is dropped until two remain.   That gives some voice to those who vote for the underdogs, and perhaps would make us more willing to cast such votes, and thereby make it easier for less well-known people to get into the system.

There would remain a question of how to handle the at-large seats.  I suppose the primary could winnow it down to four, with the top two chosen in the general (perhaps using the ranking scheme).  That would lose the present enforced diversity of allowing each party to nominate only one candidate for the two positions, but Michael Brown has already made a mockery of that by running as an "Independent Democrat".[/quote]

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