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2022-07-08 Home Front: Politix

Conservatives in 9 States Call for Closed Primaries by 2024

A little late for this year’s primaries, I suppose.

[EpochTimes] Conservative leaders in Georgia and Ohio are spearheading calls for Republicans to close their state primaries and allow only voters registered with their parties to participate in inter-party preliminary elections.

Good idea.

Atlanta Tea Party co-founder and President Debbie Dooley and Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Renacci both told The Epoch Times that Democrats are "weaponizing" crossover voting to skew outcomes in key GOP primaries across the country either to ensure the election of moderates or to nominate candidates unlikely to be successful in a general election.

Dooley, Renacci, and other conservatives are calling on Republican politicians in their states to close primaries to only those registered with parties.

They join the leaders of conservative groups and GOP politicians in at least seven other states—including Alabama, Montana, Missouri, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Texas—who are lobbying for more restrictive primary elections before the 2024 election cycle.

TIDE OF ’CROSSOVERS’
"Democrats did mischief" in Georgia, Dooley said, citing analyses from The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and Landmark Communications that estimate anywhere from 67,000 to 85,000 voters who cast ballots in the state’s 2020 Democratic primaries voted in Republican primaries on May 24, 2022.

The analyses confirmed conservatives’ contention that a Democrat-orchestrated tide of "crossover" votes proved decisive as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger garnered the required 50 percent in the GOP primary to avoid a runoff against Trump-backed challenger Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.).

Posted by Fred 2022-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Open primaries were never a good idea.

Posted by Ebbaise Brown5939 2022-07-08 10:00|| 2022-07-08 10:00|| Front Page Top

#2 "Jungle primaries" are even worse.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-08 10:03|| 2022-07-08 10:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Open primaries, jungle primaries, whatever. It's all just another opportunity for mischief, shenanigans and outright cheating which, of course, is why the Democrats like it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-08 11:56|| 2022-07-08 11:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe open primaries are bad. The greatest leverage point against them will be in 2024. We can all threaten to install Buttigieg as Trump’s opponent. They can’t install Cheney in Wyoming; there aren’t enough Democrats. After a couple of more years of Biden Harris Obama, we will have commanding majorities in rational states.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-07-08 12:29|| 2022-07-08 12:29|| Front Page Top

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