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Originally Posted by tater
I actually think that anything in law that recognizes or aids parties should be abolished.
Take primaries, for example.
A party is simply a "club," IMHO. How a party choses who will represent it is an internal matter to the party, and as far as I'm concerned should be entirely outside ANY government involvement. That means no polling places run by the State, etc. The entirety of the cost should be set/paid by the parties themselves, and whatever means they chose to elect a candidate... up to them. That includes who gets to vote. State laws that allow people to vote in a primary that are not party members? No, not unless the party wishes this to be the case.
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100% agreed!
Very interesting, didn't know that the government or states subside primaries!
However I was under the assumption that the parties in each state can choose wheather to allow non-party-members to vote on the primaries.
In Germany the party elections are a more or less internal matter which happen in private or rented rooms (halls). BUT - at least in the federal and european parliament elections - every party gets money for each vote they get - about 70 eurocent (which are 573$ US
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