Top Nevada Democratic legislator proposes open-ish primary elections
With less than a week to go, Nevada lawmakers are weighing a new bill to allow nonpartisans to vote in partisan primary elections. However, some say it doesn’t go far enough.
Nonpartisans are the biggest voting bloc in the state, according to the Nevada Secretary of State, but they can’t participate in many primaries, like contests for president, U.S. Senate, governor, and county commission.
Democratic Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager sponsored the Assembly Bill 597 on Monday.
“As the number of unaffiliated registered voters grows through automatic voter registration or otherwise, we’d like to give them the opportunity to vote in the partisan primary election that may align with their ideology without having to re-register,” Yeager said in a statement to KUNR.
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