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Representation and participation. >> reporter: jason olden is an independent voter activist pushing to change the law in california. this june there's a proposition on the state's primary ballot to eliminate party primaries entirely. >> all the candidates were on the same ballot, all the voters regardless of party vote for the best candidate and the top two vote getters go on to a run-off-style election. there would be no more segregating voters by political party. >> reporter: that's how it's done in washington state and louisiana. in other states party officials are trying to move things in ...

Welcome back to our look at our nation's broken government. washington's inability to get anything done is firing up an increasingly powerful group of voters, independents. in many states independents are essentially locked out of the political process. casey wian reports about the battle to give independents the right to vote when it matters. >> reporter: this mother and son rarely see eye to eye politically. he's an unabashed liberal. she's more conservative. now jacob car and nancy coridini could find themselves in the same boat as registers independents which could rob them of the right to...