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McCain wins Florida primary...
HK wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote: On Jan 30, 3:30�am, "Jim" wrote: Hope you're right. There's just something wrong when a political party can deprive any voter of the right to have his vote counted in the selection process. Might even be unconstitutional. A party primary is not a state election. It's a polling of party members to see how the state delegates should be appportioned and assigned. Talk aout depriving people of the right to vote.......you can't even vote in a political primary (in most states) unless you are willing to proclaim that you are either a Democrat or a Republican. Independents, libertarians, socialists, etc are turned away from the polls. We had an open primary in WA until a few years ago. I am no longer allowed to participate in the primary elections in this state because I am unwilling to lie and claim to be a D or an R. The justification is: the parties have a right to pick thier own candidates. Unaffiliated voters have the right to vote for whomever they choose in the actual election. The Constitution doesn't guarantee anybody the right to participate in the pre-election processes of any specific political parties- and that's what a primary election is about. On the other hand, I believe in closed primaries, and, to take it a step further, I believe in voting-booth primaries only, not caucuses. Voters should be able to decide on their own, in the privacy of a voting booth, who they want to support. Independents should be able to vote in primaries, too, but only to indicate a preference, not to pick a party's candidate. Harry, Did anyone ask you what you prefer? |
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