"We're confident people want a change." "We're the only state where a handful of people, just a handful of people, routinely choose" candidates.
Former Governor Mike Leavitt - Deseret News
Count My Vote launches initiative to change Utah's primary elections
September 18, 2013
Count My Vote launches initiative to change Utah's primary elections
September 18, 2013
"In the process, as it exists, every [election] year there are legislators who get elected by 30 or 40 people and there are literally thousands of people who don’t get a chance to have their voice heard."
Former Governor Mike Leavitt - Salt Lake Tribune
Count My Vote launches effort for direct Utah primaries
September 18, 2013
Count My Vote launches effort for direct Utah primaries
September 18, 2013
"The current path to get on the ballot through the caucus and convention system ensures that only the most narrow ideological selection of candidates is available to Utah voters. Those politicians have to run on an extremely limited ideological platform to appeal to the extremes."
Bryan Schott - UtahPolicy.Com
Bryan Schott's Political BS - Held Hostage by the Caucuses
August 29, 2013
Bryan Schott's Political BS - Held Hostage by the Caucuses
August 29, 2013
- Count My Vote launches initiative to change Utah's primary elections
- Count My Vote launches effort for direct Utah primaries
"Why do you think these extreme elements want to hold on to the current system? Because it gives their issues a stronger voice. Moving to a primary to nominate candidates means more broad-based campaigning and appealing to a larger slice of the electorate," says UtahPolicy.Com's Bryan Schott:
We'll be standing by awaiting details of the upcoming petition drive of course, folks. When the petitions are available for distribution and your eager signatures, our ever-gentle WCF Readers will certainly be the first to know.
Democracy in Utah. What a concept.
Update 9/19/13 7:26 a.m.: As a bellwether indicator of just how stressed-out these right wing Utah wackos are, at the prospect of turning the political nomination process over to the broad-based Utah electorate, we find that no fewer than four "ubiquitous," cut/paste, anti-democracy, pro-caucus status quo "talking points" have already been "lodged" in our comments section below.
Update 9/20/13 9:36 a.m.: Via Bob Bernick: "Regular ole citizens should love the CMV petition. For it gives them a chance to recapture the nominating process of their particular political parties. In a one-party dominate state like Utah, the more people who get the chance to vote on a GOP candidate the better. It is as simple as that":
