how to fix our polarization?

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The two parties will very much want to kill this.

Maybe too late after the Bernie Show in Colorado.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Prop. 108, by doing away with the direct election of Senators and Congressmen, might find itself at odds with the 17th Amendment. In any case, it's a bad initiative which is profoundly undemocratic and should be defeated.

I think it only does away with primary elections, if a party so chooses. No affect on general elections, so no conflict with 17th.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The two parties will very much want to kill this.

108 is an attempt to kill it, by drawing some votes away from it. I doubt if there's any expectation that 108 will pass.

Of course, propositions being what they are, one could vote for both. Don't know what would happen if both passed....

[JCricket]

prop 108

"Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised statues concerning the process of selecting candidates representing political parties on a general election ballot, and, in connection therewith, allowing an unaffiliated elector to vote in the primary election without declaring an affiliation with that party and permitting a political party in specific circumstances to select all of its candidates by assembly or convention instead of by primary election?"

[JCricket]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

108 is an attempt to kill it, by drawing some votes away from it. I doubt if there's any expectation that 108 will pass.

Of course, propositions being what they are, one could vote for both. Don't know what would happen if both passed....

I think 108 would trump 107

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by JCricket

prop 108

"Shall there be a change to the Colorado Revised statues concerning the process of selecting candidates representing political parties on a general election ballot, and, in connection therewith, allowing an unaffiliated elector to vote in the primary election without declaring an affiliation with that party and permitting a political party in specific circumstances to select all of its candidates by assembly or convention instead of by primary election?"

Nasty!

[Rajoo]

Devil is in the 'specific circumstances' clause in 108 and wonder how that is applied to a specific election. Either way the two party's power is slipping and will continue.