Open Primaries Initiative is on a roll — thanks to Dorothy Moon
The drive to get rid of the closed Republican primary election is picking up steam with the help of Idahoans from across the political spectrum. Just last month, Butch and Lori Otter announced a group of well over a 100 traditional Republicans who support the initiative.
The group, Republicans for Open Primaries, believes that all Idahoans should have the right to choose our leaders, instead of restricting their selection to hand-picked candidates of top GOP bosses.
A cross-partisan veterans group, Veterans for Idaho Voters, says the closed primary blocks 270,000 independents from voting in our most important elections. Military veterans represent one of the largest blocks of Idaho’s independent voters and it’s “just plain wrong” that they “can’t vote in publicly funded primaries.”
