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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you had your way, how would the primaries look in 2016?
I'm not talking about who will run, but how the voting for the nominee takes place.
Maybe you like things the way they are now?
Or, maybe you'd like to see the state voting dates reset into some order different than today?
Maybe a two-tier national primary, or a single tier with "instant run off"?
Perhaps the whole primary system should be scrapped in favor of caucuses?
A DU Poll, maybe?
lookingfortruth
(263 posts)Candidates do at least 3 REAL debates.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Whole country votes on the same day. Using paper ballots. Rank your choices in the order of your preference. This might be a sample ballot for me.
1 - Harkin
2 - Brown
3 - Clinton
4 - Kerrey
5 - Wilder
6 - Tsongas
To find the winner tally up each candidate's total rankings. Candidate with the lowest total wins. Or, ya know, rank them high to low instead, and then the candidate with the highest total wins.
What we have now is so unfair because only the people in a few early primary/caucus states have any say over the nominee. Or they narrow it down to a couple choices. If you live in a state that votes later in the primary season, you never had a chance to vote for Kucinich, or Dean, or Harkin, or others, unless you wanted to throw away your vote. It's so unfair.
Ranked choice let's you vote for someone with less apparent support without having to fear you are throwing away your vote, because the second and third choices also get counted and added to the total.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Tiered voting and everyone votes on the same day.
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)Either one would be fine with me.
RZM
(8,556 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Two men enter - one man leaves!
..of course, that would now include women as well!
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)RogerShuler
(11 posts)Alan Grayson