Should the top-two primary be replaced in CA, WA, and LA?
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  Should the top-two primary be replaced in CA, WA, and LA?
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« on: January 19, 2017, 05:59:23 PM »

Should the top-two primary in CA, LA, and WA be replaced with something else?
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« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2017, 06:20:56 PM »

Yes, I'm undecided on the replacement though. Maybe approval voting?
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« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2017, 06:30:05 PM »

STV for legislatures, IRV for executive positions.
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« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2017, 06:32:28 PM »

IRV all the way.
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2017, 07:04:24 PM »

I'd get rid of the Jungle Primary for just about anything, even the also-bad closed primary FPTP system we had before. I'd go for party-list PR for the Assembly for sure, and maybe also for the Senate and the US House delegation (if the Federal Government allows that). Other things could use IRV.
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« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2017, 07:12:03 PM »

Yes, and replace with standard inter party primaries.
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« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2017, 07:28:50 PM »

I'd get rid of the Jungle Primary for just about anything, even the also-bad closed primary FPTP system we had before. I'd go for party-list PR for the Assembly for sure, and maybe also for the Senate and the US House delegation (if the Federal Government allows that). Other things could use IRV.

     Considering that California has typically drawn a rather strong third-party vote in the past, a party-list PR with a low threshold could be really interesting.
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« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2017, 07:58:52 PM »

I don't know how party list PR would work in an American context, where individual candidates are more powerful than parties (i.e. they are not whipped, do not have a common manifesto and cannot be deselected).
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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2017, 09:42:01 PM »

Something like what the rest of the country uses?
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« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2017, 10:42:10 PM »

No, it should be expanded to othe States.
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