Today is primary day and 3.5 million Flori

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Open Primaries Benefit Independent Voters

OPEN PRIMARY OPTIONS

* Virginia: GOP committee wants to avoid open primary (Freelance Star) because Dems and independents would determine the Repub candidate in an open primary situation...

* Connecticut: Lieberman should have been required to submit independent sigs before the primary (Norwich Bulletin) -- some independents protested Lieberman's signatures even AFTER the primary as not by the book -- See: Jacqueline Salit in the press during September 2006: ..."There is mounting concern among independent voters in Connecticut that Mr. Lieberman's so called 'independent candidacy' is a fraud on the voting public," states Salit. "He is not an independent, but is rather a Democrat who availed himself of an escape hatch in state Election Law allowing to reinvent himself as an 'independent-in-name-only' candidate after he lost his own party's primary."...

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