Attorney Leads New Fight Against Open Primary Plan
A top elected Republican will be leading the effort to convince voters to keep the partisan in partisan politics.
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery told Capitol Media Services Tuesday the initiative drive for an open primary system will not meet its stated goals of increasing voter participation and electing candidates who are not at either extreme. In fact, he said, experiences elsewhere suggest the reverse would be true.
The formation of the Save Our Vote Committee comes on the heels of the failure of Gov. Jan Brewer and legislative Republicans to dull the move — and possibly confuse voters — with a competing measure of their own. But that plan fell apart when some GOP senators refused to go along.
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