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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a ballot initiative that would allow independents to vote in primaries. This is a really important reform to how we conduct elections.

DC is a one party city of course which means all the important decisions are made in the primaries. If you’re waiting until the general election to choose a candidate, you’re doing it wrong. By then, it’s the person who’s going to win vs. some crazy person in a tin foil hat.

DC has some of the most restrictive rules in the country though about who is allowed to vote in primaries.

Not surprisingly, turnout in primaries is very low and is dominated by the two parties’ extremists. If you’re wondering why our elected representatives seem so far to the left of the voters, well, here’s your answer.

Opening up the primaries to independents would: 1. Dramatically increase turnout 2. Stop disenfranchising the city’s 80,000 independents and 3. Produce candidates more closely aligned with what voters actually want.

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I’m one of those looney people who thinks only party members should choose that party’s candidate. Why should the lazy yahoos get to invade a group they’re not a part of and choose who that group’s candidate.

If you’re an independent or unaffiliated, and want to vote, there’s the general election for that.[/quote]

Because that disenfranchises people? The only elections that matter in DC are the primaries. By the time the general election rolls around, it’s the person who’s going to win versus some homeless person [/quote]

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