Transsexual Satanist anarchist' wins GOP nomination for sheriff in NH county

[Shadow2]

Whats new, unqualified people get in every election. Look at the NY governor.

 

[Bob]

Cheshire County. That explains everything.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Independents should be allowed to vote in primarys, period. You want to have political parties, fine, but they should not be exclusive to any membership. In fact, the american voter should always have the status of "independent", regardless of which way an individual tends to vote. I mean, our elections are supposed to be by secret ballot, yet we are set up where we have people registered for a political party. While this obviously does not necessarily mean a person will vote for the party they are registered as, this would certianly help avoid some election fraud by not identifying one voter as typically "for this party or that". It would keep all votes secret.

If you want influence within the internal machinations of a party, join the party. If you want to be independent and poke your finger in the eyes of both parties, remain independent.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

 

[fresch]

I vote for myself and have yet to win!

 

[ArmedCorgi]

If you want influence within the internal machinations of a party, join the party. If you want to be independent and poke your finger in the eyes of both parties, remain independent.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

I just don't think there should be anything exclusive about government. Parties are exclusive. You want to join a private club that leans a certain way so you can be exclusive, more power to you, but as a voter charged with the civic duty of electing people to public office, you shouldn't have to. Imagine if you were able to vote for the best each party has to offer and then vote again for the one who you feel best fits the office. It wouldn't be one camp against the other anymore. Everyone would have skin in the game.
I get it's not realistic in this world, but it's a nice thought experiment.

 

[E the massive]

Why waste your time? Even if someone somewhere was keeping track what difference does it make?

Exercising a Right is never a waste of time.

 

[Marine Cpl]

When Trump was running in the primaries, everyone of us could have voted for Bush, Kasich, Paul, Trump, Cain, ect and we did. It was Trump that got the majority to win the nomination. After that it was him against Hillary for a streamlined election. Sure you can still vote and pencil in for Jeb Bush or Paul but neither would win because Trump already got the majority.

If there were no primaries at all and it was all those republican candidates against all the democratic candidates, Trump and Hillary would still get the majority of votes.