• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Open primaries work better in small local elections. My county made positions non-partisan so there is an open primary, and the top two candidates go to a runoff. It was able to break the Republicans horrific stranglehold on local politics and let cooler heads shine through, because with party affiliations involved whoever had the ® always wins by default.

    Statewide with political affiliations still involved though, seems like a clusterfuck.