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2016 Postmortem

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Funtatlaguy

(11,842 posts)
Tue May 3, 2016, 07:52 AM May 2016

My plan to revise the primary system. [View all]

No Caucuses
Five primaries held every 2 weeks representing different parts of country.
I would prefer having these every second Tuesday or every second Saturday.

E.g.
Start the first Tuesday in February with Iowa, N.H., S.C., Nevada, Montana.
If the Iowa and New Hampshire people freak out, let them go first on Tuesday and the other three then go on the following Saturday.
Then 2 Tuesday's later, 5 more states from different regions.....and, so on...and so on.
After 20 weeks, all 50 states would have voted.
2 weeks later, all U.S. Territories and D.C. vote.

All states should use the Presidential primary dates as the same date for their state and local primary election contests. This would drive up voter turnout and save the states from having to have multiple elections.



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