Outdated disclosure rules allow interest groups to hide their contributions by channelling them through the state political party or front organisations.Brooklyn, says the Brennan Centre's Adam Skaggs, needs either public primary elections for judges or a proper merit system, instead of having the worst of both back-room dealing and voting.
There's a very good chance that Clinton will end up winning the public primary elections comfortably in the end, and it's also entirely possible that even if Sanders does end up winning, the superdelegates will realize the mayhem it will cause if they expressly go against their voters' wishes and cede their votes to Sanders.
I and others have suggested that Commissioner Mason, a Republican on the committee, may have been dropped because he planned to examine whether Sen. McCain violated the rules related to public financing in the primary election.
In a primary election, the public vote for "delegates" supporting their chosen presidential candidate.
Twice, the council majority went through the charade of inviting public participation — once before the primary election and again following it.
Mr. Schundler, a favorite of the party's conservative wing who may be able to raise millions from his ideological soul mates across the country, has said he is likely to bypass public financing, at least in the primary election.
With three weeks until the primary election, and with public matching funds finally coursing through their bank accounts, the Republican candidates for governor of New Jersey have taken their backroom brawl outside, where the voters might begin to pay attention.
Crisco trailed Aiken, the former "American Idol" runner-up making his first bid for public office, by just 369 votes after last Tuesday's primary election.
Caughey draws on a broad range of historical and quantitative evidence, including archival materials, primary election returns, congressional voting records, and hundreds of early public opinion polls that illuminate ideological patterns in the Southern public.
The independent candidate need not stand for primary election but must qualify for the ballot by demonstrating substantial public support in another way.
Outside, the public is watching, particularly that narrow slice of the public that votes in primary elections.
