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Many people are frustrated with the party politics and the poor quality candidates offered in the general election. A lot of that is due to voter apathy where voters in the primaries do not take the elections seriously. A reform is being suggested is to do away with party primaries and hold a general primary election. Everyone would vote for their top pick candidate. For instance, if there are ten candidates in the primary,  the top four or five would be forwarded to the general election regardless of party affiliation. That would force candidates to appeal to a wider range of voters and not just to the party faithful. That would also require them as elected officials in strong blue or red States to compromise to satisfy the largest number of voters and not just the party faithful.  It would also allow independents and non-committed voters to vote since they are barred from primaries where they have to declare themselves as supporting one party or the other. That might open the door to minority candidates who might not be well-known in their party  but are more widely known by the public. That offers a promise of improving the elections. However, it might also force out candidates in minority parties who don’t have the broad support outside of their party or force out Republicans in a strong Democrat State or force out Democrats in a strong Republican State. We haven’t had enough experience with it yet to fully know the effects. While there is bipartisan support for it, there is also bipartisan opposition.

While several Republicans have been vocal in highlighting voter fraud in general elections, the media and Democrat party leaders have downplayed them as fake news. They have also managed to prevent Democrat party members from speaking out on instances of voter fraud in Democrat primaries, where the largest number of cases have taken place.  In addition, Democrats have often stonewalled or ignored cases of fraud in Democrat primaries. Democrat leaders have deprived Democrats of their vote through election engineering schemes in Democrat primaries to elect radical liberal candidates to the general elections. As a result, Democrat voters are forced to choose  the radical candidate unless they are willing to vote Republican or independent, and so party leaders have succeeded in getting radical Democrats elected to Congress and even the White House. However, it has resulted in fewer Democrats reporting their intention vote, yet Democrat primaries often still report more votes cast than eligible voters. While prominent Democrats proclaim that voters approve their agenda, many Democrat voters as well as a majority of Republicans oppose them. Democrats  have continued to push passage of laws opening loopholes that could be used to influence elections. Democrats have recently been pushing for non-citizens to vote in New York and other States in local elections but one has to wonder what steps they take to prevent them from voting for federal officials. In light of the increasing number of counties reporting more votes cast then eligible voters, it indicating that some of  the ballots are not legal. Democrats have been preventing States they control from purging their rolls of those who have died or moved out of State and allowing voters to vote without presenting identification to verify they are who they claim to be, making them ripe for people who aren’t eligible to vote using the name of someone who is deceased or no longer living in the State, but whose names are still on the rolls.