Friday, January 19, 2024
LWV-Downeast
January 19: Who gets to vote in Maine primaries? Change is coming ...
We’ll talk about the roll-out of semi-open primaries. Maine will be running semi-open primaries for the first time in 2024. We’ll explain to voters what to expect and what important deadlines and new procedures may pertain. And we’ll talk about how semi-open primaries might affect voter behavior and election outcomes.
In case you missed it live, you can listen from the archive here.
Special guests:
- Shenna Bellows, Maine Secretary of State.
- Jill Goldthwait, Hancock County journalist and political columnist, former Maine state senator (unenrolled).
- Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Professor of Political Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research; Northwestern University.
For more information or to learn more about this subject:
- LWV Of Tennessee | League of Women Voters LWVTN sues over "Bona Fide Primary Voting Law, November, 2023
- Understanding the Partisan Divide: How Demographics and Policy Views Shape Party Coalitions | New America, February, 2023
- The Success Story Behind Maine's Adoption of Semi-Open Primaries | Independent Voter News, August, 2022
- State Primary Election Systems | National Council of State Legislators, June, 2021
- Why Do Legislators Reject ‘Half-Loaf’ Compromises? | Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, April, 2020
- Rejecting Compromise: Legislators’ Fear of Primary Voters. Anderson, S., D. Butler, and Harbridge-Yong, Cambridge University Press, 2020
- LWVME Study Guide on Primaries, 2017-2018
- 9 media myths about independent voters, debunked | Vox, January 2016
- How Do You Like Me Now? The desirability of Political Independence, Klar S, Krupnikov Y., Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction, Cambridge University Press, 2016.