elections

The federal court decision from last year which found Virginia’s “open primary” unconstitutional as applied, was not appealed. It became final and binding on the State this week. The VA system forced parties which participated in the state-run primary election to allow any voter to vote in their primary.

Are you really excited about the idea of having Republicans intentionally change their party registration to vote in the Democratic primary this May in order to vote for the "weaker" candidate as proposed by the Oregonian's David Reinhardt? Well if you want to game the closed party primary system, here's something that will eliminate the rights of registered party members to select party nominees altogether.

The OEA and other public employee unions control Oregon's political process.

That's the conclusion that you may come to if you have been following the news lately.