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Several points:

1) Under current law, you can register with any party and vote in their primary. So if that is all you want, you already got it.

2) "None of the above" is not an option in the proposed "top two" primary system.

3) The electoral college and superdelegates do not have anything to do with measure 65.

In short, if you want to vote none of the above or vote in a specific primary, all you have to do is register with the party you want to vote in the primary for.

Killing minor parties is not the solution to what you want, so when you say "I could not support this more, you seem to be confused".

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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Why is the in any different than abortion?

I.E. The government trying to legislate "morality" by telling a woman what she can and can't do with her own body?

posted 4 years, 8 months ago
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Barbara Dudley writes:
But the Oregon Initiative is better than Washington's law because it provides a way for parties to endorse candidates. Thus, "minor" parties will have an equal role with "major" parties in both primary and general elections.
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With all due respect to someone I admire (Barbara Dudley), this statement is patently absurd.

The only way a minor party would have an "equal role" is to be on the general election ballot as they are today. Period.

Trying to pretend that some "fusion hybrid" makes up for not being on the ballot is incomplete at best and downright dishonest at worst.

And we all know who will be on the general election ballot. That's right! The top fundraisers. Who will the top fundraisers be? That's right!
The same people they are today.

The parties who don't succumb to corporate contributions or to high level contributors don't stand a chance of making the top two. Pretending othewise is intellectually dishonest.

Furthermore, if I wanted to vote for a Democrat or a Republican, I would vote for them. I don't see how "labeling" my vote as "green" has any kind of real impact on expediting the need to limit the power of the duopoly to continue putting up roadblocks to true electoral reforms.

While some may have good intentions, they are simply misguided or disconnected from the reality of the way our current political system works.

It's about the money people!
I hope nobody would try and deny that???

The only real power that minor parties have in Oregon today is the opportunity to nominate their candidates and have them appear on the general election ballot where citizens can learn that they do have options and they don't have to continue to settle for the "lesser of two evils".

The top two primary system will destroy minor parties in Oregon.

posted 4 years, 8 months ago
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