[EM] State's top-two runoff system under legal fire by political parties

Kathy Dopp kathy.dopp at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 07:42:20 PST 2011


http://www.tukwilareporter.com/news/134723203.html

While I like a top-two system, I think using it to eliminate partisan
primary elections isn't right.  In Washington's top-two system,
vote-splitting would make it easier for the party with the fewest
candidates to win positions in the runoff.

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