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California has little to gain from allowing a free-for-all system that lets candidates run for as many offices as they'd like. Voters deserve common-sense election laws.

Submitted opinion column: Ron C. Poirier is a teacher living in East Providence.

Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) apologized to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for dismissing his past criticism of the primary system, as the lawmaker makes a long-shot bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. “I have an apology to make to @BernieSanders,” Phillips wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “I had long dismissed his complaints about the rigged…

After inadvertently removing the Idaho Primary, the legislature has until Oct. 1 to reinstate it. Otherwise, the GOP will pick their delegates based on a caucus.

Pick a toss-up state. hey, tom you know what i like, florida governor bob bram, this goes back 15 years but stands out in my mind, one time presidential candidate, albeit, he didnt get that far. but reflecting on the process said lets look to college athletics. i think he used football as an example and have a regional primary system. ive always liked senator grahams idea. its the northeast one cycle. and four years later, its the south. then its the midwest, so on and so forth. everyone gets a ...

Swiftly, all while hosting the first state dinner of the biden administration with french president emmanuel macron this week. yes, that is big news on the political calendar front. a new plan of putting south carolina first would be a huge change to the traditional presidential trump primary system. i will any hampshire have gone first for decades. but there have long been calls to switch of the order to reflect more diverse electorates. that course only got louder after i was delayed democrati...

Tonight. he had committed to that. trump doesnt reschedule. he would have perceived that as weakness if he didnt do it tonight. do i think it was a good idea? no. it certainly -- it has some advantages to him. certainly when it comes to the doj investigation maybe he makes it look like its more political. but i dont think that really changes many peoples minds. he loses the rnc money that hes been receiving for his state lawsuits up in new york. so theres a negative there. but do i think he need...

This idea that elections shouldnt be the way we do things anymore, that becomes the operating principle of the republican party. it is working, within the republican party. ever since trump won the republican nomination for president in 2016, thanks to a republican primary system, he said was rigged and fraudulent. and then he won the general election that year and still said that there was fraud in that election, there were millions of illegal votes cast in that election. even in elections that...

Documents. and we have seen, i think very clearly, over these last few days that a congressional majority, a republican congressional majority would be even less willing to constrain or hold into account when he was in office the first time. that is the dynamic that no rolls the party. and i think that is the dynamic that cheney has sent every indication that she intends to be fighting against a long after whatever happens tomorrow. so, lets go to alaska now. >> at least, lets talk about alaska....

>> lets go to alaska. at least lets talk about alaska. the special general election to moore there where we might see, we will see the return of sarah palin. >> shes going to be facing off republican nick, lets pronounce this right, baggy? >> baggage. >> you know, its going to be while till we know appalachia. because its kind of a double helix of complication. they have a top four primary system. then they have ranked choice voting on top of that. so if nobody gets to 50%. what they do is they ...