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Posted By: Harlowe, 3/29/2023 11:36:27 PM

Ohio is doing just fine with its “open” primary system, contrary to the alarmism of Jim Renacci. The former Republican congressman from Wadsworth argued last week that the system, under which voters can change their political party affiliation whenever they cast a ballot in a primary election, had been “abused” by Democrats and Republicans who switch parties to meddle in the affairs of the opposition party. “This is called primary ‘raiding,’ and it’s no way to run elections,” Renacci wrote in a guest column published in the Akron Beacon Journal. Does that happen? Probably, but not at the scale Renacci seems to believe.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: padiva 3/29/2023 11:50:17 PM (No. 1436852)
I became a democratic several weeks before a primary election. I switched back several weeks after the primary election. I wanted to vote for Spector's opponent so Spector would lose in the primary.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: RWPollock 3/30/2023 2:10:17 AM (No. 1436875)
Ohio thinks they have fair elections? Remember it was a lady in Cleveland that was brought up on charges for voting six times for Obama.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Vitaman 3/30/2023 7:11:11 AM (No. 1436916)
Editorial is interesting in that the writer concedes the points that Renacci makes then does double-reverse somersaults through hoops of flaming cow dung to explain why none of that matters. It is a perfect example of "who are you going to believe; me or your lying eyes?"
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Subsuburban 3/30/2023 7:26:59 AM (No. 1436927)
This is an "editorial" published in a "newspaper," so allow me to translate for your benefit. An "editorial" is an opinion that is published by the "editors" who are entirely owned, controlled and at the beck and call of the democrat politicians to whom they have pledged fealty. Their "opinion" is exactly what they have been told to publish by their democrat party bosses. Therefore, if the "editorial" is in favor of keeping open primaries, it is because the democrats have determined it is in their best interests to do so. And a "newspaper" is the printed version of the democrat party propaganda that is printed and disseminated to the public in an effort to provide them with the lies that the democrat party wishes to force upon the reading public and compel them to believe. Now do you understand? Good. You're welcome.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bubby 3/30/2023 7:36:28 AM (No. 1436933)
#4 Amen and Amen! Open primaries allow the evil Democrats to choose their Republican opponent!!! And the stupid Republicans either don’t realize it or don’t care! Hard to say which it is.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: MDConservative 3/30/2023 10:26:53 AM (No. 1437081)
Primaries ought not be state run nominating elections. Candidates are each party’s business, not the public’s. The public can choose between the candidates nominated however a party decides. The two party system is not part of our Constitution . It is largely cemented in place by ballot access and public financing laws. In fact, the government’s election ballots should not include party affiliation, either.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 3/30/2023 11:21:12 AM (No. 1437165)
The argument that it happens "but not on a big scale," not enough to worry about, is exactly the Democrat weaselly argument made about massive vote fraud across the country.
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