To fix the primaries, let the elites decide

[Elderberry]

Hot Air 2/19/2020 by Julia Azari

https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2020/02/fix-primaries-let-elites-decide/

For decades, the conversation about nominations has been about the conflicts between party elites and everyone else. Today, that conversation is counterproductive. A better approach is to think about how voters and elites could best play their different roles: to make their political parties more representative while ultimately narrowing the nomination choice down to one person. And the best way to do that would be through preference primaries.

Preference primaries could allow voters to rank their choices among candidates, as well as to register opinions about their issue priorities — like an exit poll, but more formal and with all the voters. The results would be public but not binding; a way to inform elites about voter preferences.

This process could accompany a primary of the sort we’re used to — in which voters’ first choices instruct the delegates, and preferences come into play only if there’s no clear winner. The primaries could also be held in combination with elections for convention delegates so that these representatives are informed by their constituents’ preferences. This would also help voters hold these delegates accountable in the future. The point is to build a way for party elites to understand what their base is thinking, and to allow them to bargain so that these different preferences and priorities can be balanced.

[Smokin Joe]

We have examples of people committing egregious criminal acts throughout the DOJ, the FBI, the former State Department, and all through the frigging Congress, what on earth makes anyone think for a New York second that:

This would also help voters hold these delegates accountable in the future.

Nothing short of parades with primitive lighting devices and farm implements, tar and feathers, and 'rail transport' of the offenders, will work. All the ordinary avenues to address grievances are muted by the lack of prosecution of the crimes that glare at the voters now.