Tinkering with the system can go only so far, so long as voters themselves are too apathetic to recognize how politics actually works in a polarized country.
, who won by only 546 votes in a surprisingly strong challenge by Democrat Adam Frisch, who is running against her again in 2024.What Unite America found is how small a number of people voted in the GOP primaries, where the real choice to send these people to Washington was made. The average, according to its calculations, was only 68,000 voters, or 12 percent of the number who were eligible. We don’t have a House that represents voters because most voters don’t participate.
There are ways to fix this. One is to open up the primaries so that anyone, or at a minimum people who register with no party affiliation, can vote in them. The current system, in which 30 states hold primaries in which only registered party members can vote, effectively disenfranchises 140 million voters in the elections that count, according to Unite America.
Four states have gone further. Alaska, California, Louisiana and Washington have either eliminated primaries in federal elections or replaced them with nonpartisan ones, in which the top finishers make it to the November ballot.What difference can it make? It is probably not a coincidence that of the handful of Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the only two who managed to be reelected were Dan Newhouse and David G.
But tinkering with the system can go only so far, so long as voters themselves are too apathetic to recognize how politics actually works in a polarized country and to take their own responsibilities seriously. It starts with understanding that, increasingly, the elections that matter don’t take place in November.
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