Potus Geeks Book Review: The Primary Solution by Nick Troiano

[kensmind]

Almost everyone agrees that our politics are broken, right? Identifying the crux of the problem is another matter. Are the wrong people being elected? Is it social media or the decline of a principled and ethical media that has led to rampant polarization? Maybe it's the influence of big money that puts privileged private interest ahead of the

Comments

[seaivy]

would that not make the primary the same as the general election?
Everybody runs - most votes wins

I don't want my vote given to anyone except the person i voted for!!!
if i thought one of the others was best i would have voted for them
One Man /One Vote /One Person

what if the person who gathers the most votes does NOT represent my concerns?
why should he get my vote?

why would this system make the winner work for everyone?
he would still has his own beliefs and political positions

[kensmind]

I think that's the point, that right now, in states that are either strongly blue or red, the primary is the general election. This way, even if the alpha party isn't your party, at least you get some say in who they pick as their candidate, and with more people voting and coming from a wider spectrum, the support for the extremists gets diluted

[seaivy]

i still say Nay

[sdu754]

I agree with having open primaries, that is what we do in Ohio. You do have to pick which primary you vote in however. You can't vote in both meaning that you can't pick your favorite presidential candidate from each party. You also have to choose the same primary for all elections too.

I dislike rank choice voting because it basically throws out votes until they get a "majority", which is fallacious majority. If say ten candidates ran and you throw out all the votes of the bottom seven candidates to get "a majority", you just disenfranchised everyone who voted for those candidates.