They call it "Let All Voters Vote" which sounds appealing to most. However, this would allow the Democrat party to HAND PICK the candidates running for each offive. The Amendment allows all voters to vote in primary elections REGARDLESS of affiliation.
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"If approved by 60% of the electorate in November, all voters could vote in state and legislative races regardless of party affiliation, forcing candidates to appeal to a broader constituency beginning in 2024. The two candidates, even two from the same party, who get the most votes in each primary would then advance to the general election."
They couldn't beat Trump so now they're going to stack the ballots!
This is SERIOUS. This is DANGEROUS. This is INSIDIOUS.
Please, I ask you, tell all Florida voters to vote NO on this amendment. They're past doing it behind closed doors, now they're doing it right out in the OPEN.
It's not just "open primaries, where registered voters from one party can choose to vote on the other party's primary rather their their party's, but there are primaries by party, and the winner of each party's primary is guaranteed a spot in the general election ballot.
Regular open primaries are BAD enough because they allow the other party's voters to gang up on the other party's primary with the intent to send the weaker candidate to the general election (which, IMO, is a dirty trick that attracts many more leftards than conservatives, who tend to play a more honest game).
However, from OP's description, it sounds as if, like in California, Dems in FL want to put all candidates in a general pool and have the two with the most votes go to the general election, EVEN if they are both from the same party.
Here in CA, Republicans often don't even have the option of voting for a Republican candidate in the general election. This happens because there is no primary by party; candidates of both parties run in a single race for the same two spots in the general-election ballot. So, even if there were Republican candidates in the primary races, if the two candidates with most votes in the single primary are DemocRATS, it's just too bad that you're a Republican and will not have an option to vote for a candidate that might actually represent you.
Slut Kamala Harris, for example, ran against another DemocRAT when she was elected to the Senate; conservatives had NO option. They either chose whoever they thought was the lesser of two evils, or they left that box blank, or they didn't go to the polls at all - which is what MANY decided to do because, not only there was no real option for the Senate, but Hillary was the certain winner of the presidency (in CA and nationwide), and many CA voters had no conservative option for House Rep and most local offices.
One might say that, if the two most voted in the single primary are DemocRATS, the Republican who likely came in third in the primary would have no chance. But it's not always that black and white, and it's also about having the right to vote for someone you have at least a little faith in.
I say that this is not so black and white because this system takes away all enthusiasm from Republican voters' (especially ones who live in bluer areas) to cast their votes. It shouldn't be like this, but it's a fact that a lot of people don't even vote if they are certain that their candidate has no chance. I actually believe that CA has a lot more conservatives than we can guess by seeing election results, and I also think that many more Republicans would be elected here if conservative people hadn't given up.
If each party could have a primary to fill a guaranteed spot in the general-election ballot (even if a Republican candidate had no real chances of winning a general election in a traditionally blue area), anything can happen between the primary race and the general election. Something could happen to discredit, demoralize, and destroy the reputation of the DemocRAT candidate before the general election, and the Republican could actually win.