While the No on H campaign is sending out e-mail addresses, this morning the Yes on Amendment H campaign is sending things to e-mail addresses.
The Yes on Amendment H campaign sent out an e-mail asking people to Vote Yes on H, and also provided a link to a pretty good TV Commercial that the group ran during the olympics:
You can find out more at their website at www.sdopenprimaries.org.
Independent and non affiliated voters CHOSE NOT to be part of the two parties.
Now they can go pound sand.
Typical entitlement comment.
Fund your own damn primaries, quit making everyone pay for your failing system!
Just because dems and indies can’t win elections……..
Why would an independent want to join with doofuses like the folks running the No on H campaign?
A South Dakota voter should not have to forfeit his right to vote just because he refuses to join one of the two unsavory political parties. We believe in freedom of association here, right?
you aren’t required to “associate” with anybody. You just need to sign up for a political party. Attendance at meetings and fundraisers is not mandatory.
Just pick one and vote in that party’s primary. We don’t care.
We know who you are; you’re the same people who stand in front of the ice cream machine at Pizza Ranch and can’t decide if you want chocolate or vanilla, while a line forms behind you. You think your inability to choose is virtuous, but you’re really just wasting other people’s time.
Nobody cares that you can’t make a decision.
Get out of the way.
Or, I’m an independent because the ice cream machine has a bunch of Karens and Kens (connect the analogy your damn self) fighting over the appropriate method of ice cream dispensation like children. Grow up.
Then no ice cream for you!
If you can’t decide which party to be affiliated with, it is unlikely you can make a selection off a menu, much less a ballot.
Why should other voters have to wait in line at polling stations while you stare at a ballot, unable to make a decision?
The problem isn’t that neither party appeals to you, the problem is you can’t make up your mind, and you want to be accommodated, as if the inability to make a decision should be classified as a disability and you want to come under the protections of the ADA.
The independents who claim that they are being disenfranchised when they are not allowed to vote in party primaries are either disingenuous or stupid. The primaries are the PARTIES’ method of selecting their candidates for the election. Independents might as well be complaining about how they are not allowed to vote for the leaders of a union to which they do not belong, the captain of the opposing sports team, or the representative of another class in a spelling bee.
If the people leading the effort were truly worried about the cost of the primary elections, Amendment H would have been written to require the parties to pay for the primary elections, but as is often the case with initiated measures and constitutional amendments, the backers use deceptive advertising to mislead the voters.
The fact is that Amendment H is the product of Democrats, and a few former Republicans who have not bothered or chosen to change their voter registration, who want to affect the choice of the Republican Party in order to make Republican victories less likely or to get their faux Republicans elected; and most of the people who vote for Amendment H will do so because they are fundamentally ignorant of how our republic was designed to function.
Anon 9:56: Your comparison isn’t valid. The “union” does not make decisions for those outside the union.
It used to mean something when you signed up for a party, R or D. Maybe it meant one was pro-life or was was not. One was for social programs vs a fiscal conservative.
Nowadays……you have a Republican fringe that is bat $#%& crazy and a Democratic fringe that is the same. So……the loud people (the fringe) drive people away from politics. Because we are tired of hearing the obnoxious insanity that comes from their mouth – both sides of the aisle.
Amendment H – likely will allow all of us normal people (D or R) take part in the election before the crazy nuts get voted in in the primary election of both sides.
Union leaders do indeed make decisions that affect people outside of their union. They affect working conditions and pay for the fellow non-union members, the owners of companies, the management in companies, the consumers, the candidates who receive or do not receive union donations, and the citizens affected by the decisions of those candidates who win elections. To argue otherwise is nonsense.
Again, if you think closed primaries are a bad idea, do away with primaries altogether. Everyone can run in the fall and if no one gets 50 percent, you can have a runoff. That will save money and give everyone a chance. As the amendment stands it is likely to produce several races where you have a Republican running against a Republican in the fall which is fine with me, but i still think not the best way to go.
If Independents want to call themselves Independents and still want to vote in a primary, they need to form the Independent Party and have their own primary, with their own candidates.
Of course that would be WORK. Forming a party, filing the necessary paperwork, recruiting candidates and raising money are WORK.
And if there’s one thing we know about people who can’t be bothered to choose and register with a political party, it’s they don’t want to do any WORK.
The Republican Party also doesn’t want to do any WORK, evidenced by the fact that the county parties would rather start fights instead of sticking to their job of winning republican elections.
Hence the reason H is sounding favorable this election season.