{{featured_button_text}}“The simple fact of the matter is that partisan elections are very often decided in the primary. If the initiative passes, it could also reduce the number of noncompetitive contests, Kieckhefer said. More than a dozen state and local officer-holders were automatically elected in 2018 after failing to draw a general election opponent, the Reno Gazette Journal reported. “This is a system that empowers voters, rather than political parties,” Kieckhefer told the Journal. “This is a system that gives every voter a chance to elect who represents them."

Source: Daily Sun February 08, 2020 15:33 UTC