Should Arizona's Democrats allow independents to vote in primary? It's up for debate
Posted by Danny Battista on September 20, 2019 at 6:35 PM
Garrett Archer - September 20, 2019
PHOENIX — Maricopa county recorder Adrian Fontes will be bringing reams of papers with him to the State Democratic meeting tomorrow.
Fontes will ask the state committee to allow him to introduce an emergency resolution that will open Arizona’s presidential preference election to the state’s almost 1.3 million independents, or “party not declared” registrants. Since its creation in 1996, the presidential preference election has been a “closed” election, which means that voters that wish to participate must be registered in one of the state’s recognized political parties.
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