No primary no general. The petition is the election. Get x number of registered voters to sign your petition you become the representative of those voters. They might all be concentrated in one city they might be scattered throughout the whole state.
Nobody is represented by someone they didn't vote for.
Originally posted by: LiveFreeNW
No primary no general. The petition is the election. Get x number of registered voters to sign your petition you become the representative of those voters. They might all be concentrated in one city they might be scattered throughout the whole state.
Nobody is represented by someone they didn't vote for.
How would that be any different from just listing all forty-two of them on a ballot and asking each voter to check one (and only one, or the ballot would be invalid)?
With your method, people could still not be represented by the person they "voted" for, if that person doesn't collect enough signatures.
I can only imagine the logistical nightmare of showing all registered voters the petitions and getting them to sign them. I also don't see how you could keep people from signing multiple petitions.
I don't see how this would work.
