[LWVNM Action] LWVNM Action Committee Zoom January 29 at 4 pm

[George Richmond]

The letter below appears in The Economist of last week.  It deals very 
well with voting/election issues and I encourage supporting these 
measures in New Mexico.


    Ditch party primaries

Another factor that has led to the current state of American politics 
(“Trump’s legacy 
<https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/09/trumps-legacy-the-shame-and-the-opportunity>”, 
January 9th) is the pernicious effect of party primaries. Energetic and 
well-organised minorities of interests vote in the primaries for 
ideologues, who are guaranteed almost-certain election in gerrymandered 
districts dominated by their party. The system produces increasing 
numbers of rigid partisans in Congress. It also explains why Republican 
legislators found it so difficult to challenge Donald Trump. They knew 
that their seats were at risk if they defied the zealous Trump primary base.

The problem of hyper-partisanship would be reduced by the widespread 
adoption of non-party blanket primaries, in which all candidates, 
Democrat and Republican, compete on the same primary ballot for a spot 
on the general election ballot. The top two go through. If both 
candidates are from the same party they have to compete against each 
other in the general. They would therefore have to appeal for votes 
across the political spectrum; those pandering to a narrow base, no 
matter how energised, are less likely to win.

WILLIAM HORNS
/Fitchburg, Wisconsin/

Mr. Horns, who I do not know, brings out the issues of Gerrymandering, 
narrowly focused candidates appealing to a narrow base and top two, or 
Ranked Choice Voting.

Getting this done in NM will take time.


George Richmond/
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On 1/28/2021 9:28 AM, Richard Mason wrote:
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George M. Richmond
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Albuquerque, NM 87122-1913

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