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AthenaAwakened

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People in Florida are complaining that Donald Trump's name was left off their ballots. Um, if you are a registered Democrat in the state of Florida (a state with closed primaries), you will get a Democratic ballot and yes, The Donald and all the other GOP candidates names will be missing from said ballot. If you are an independent voter, your ballot today will only have municipal issues listed, so again, the Donald will not appear on your ballot either.

SMH

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics...ion-officials-trumps-name-not-left-off-ballot
 
Wow.

Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher said that independent voters can't vote in the primary. Bucher said Tuesday that some residents in Jupiter, Florida who were voting in municipal elections complained when they didn't see Trump's name on the ballot. Bucher said none of the other presidential candidates were listed on those ballots either.
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I seem to remember something from 2000 election
THE 2000 ELECTIONS: THE PALM BEACH BALLOT; Florida Democrats Say Ballot's Design Hurt Gore http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/09/u...ballot-s-design-hurt-gore.html?pagewanted=all

The dispute centers on the peculiar layout of a presidential ballot in Palm Beach County that some Democratic voters say caused them to become confused and mistakenly vote for Patrick J. Buchanan when they had intended to vote for Vice President Al Gore.
After the final tally, with Mr. Gore trailing Mr. Bush by just 1,784 votes in Florida, several senior Democratic officials said if the ballot had not flummoxed their supporters, Mr. Gore would have won enough votes to win Florida and the presidency.
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Maybe its something about the the way ballots are described in Palm Beach County ...... surely it couldn't be the voters?
 
Since Reconstruction, Louisiana had no Republican party, so the fact all we had closed primaries for all state didn't mean much. The state Democratic Party was divided along the same lines of conservatism and liberalism which separated the two parties in other states.

This wasn't a problem until the late 60's and early 70's, when the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act drove the conservative Democrats into the hands of waiting Republicans. It was either the GOP or George Wallace, so what are you going to do.

Most state wide offices, especially governor and lieutenant governor would start out with at least a dozen candidates. This always mean a first primary(a tautology), followed by a run-off second primary(a oxymoron). This was usually the winner, since there was no GOP opponent in the general election. The newly revived GOP would carefully arrange to have only one candidate for each election, and sail straight to the general election at almost no cost at all, while the Democratic candidate had just fought two hard and expensive contests. This led to calls for an open primary system, and the changes were made in the late 70's.

Now the tables have turned and there are a dozen Republicans who sign up for the governors race and one Democrat. The GOP wants to return to the closed primary system because they are convinced that Democrats organize to vote for the extreme conservative Republican candidates in the primary, in order to have a weaker GOP candidate in the runoff election. It's a strange kind of political paranoia.
 
What, you believed something Rubio said?
 
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