Idaho Dispatch had the opportunity to interview a proponent and opponent of Proposition 1.
This interview was with Hyrum Erickson, a Republican Precinct Committeeman in District 34. Erickson has been an outspoken advocate for Prop 1 and done a debate and several interviews on the topic.
You can view Idaho Dispatch’s interview with Erickson by clicking here or at the bottom of this article.
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So, what does Prop 1 do exactly? Here is what is written on the long title:
“First, this measure would abolish Idaho’s party primaries. Under current law, political parties nominate candidates through primary elections in which party members vote for a candidate to represent the party in the general election.
The initiative creates a system where all candidates participate in a top-four primary and voters may vote on all candidates. The top four vote-earners for each office would advance to the general election. Candidates could list any affiliation on the ballot, but would not represent political parties, and need not be associated with the party they name.”
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“Second, the measure would require a ranked-choice voting system for the general election. Under current law, voters may select one candidate for each office, and the candidate with the most votes wins. Under the ranked-choice voting system, voters rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference, but need not rank every candidate.
The votes are counted in successive rounds, and the candidate receiving the fewest votes in each round is eliminated. A vote for an eliminated candidate will transfer to the voter’s next-highest-ranked active candidate. The candidate with the most votes in the final round wins.”
If you wish to watch read our article or watch the interview with an opponent of Prop 1 that Idaho Dispatch interviewed, Nick Contos, you can do that by clicking here.
2 thoughts on “Interview with Prop 1 Supporter Hyrum Erickson”
“Candidates could list any affiliation on the ballot, but would not represent political parties, and need not be associated with the party they name.”
So they can be a hard Leftist and call themselves a republican on election day, then switch back to Marxist democrat after they won? Well, I guess RINOs have been doing this, in a way, for awhile now, but this new freedom to claim any standards & policies that will get you elected just for election day only, is too creepy at a minimum.
This will make it next to impossible for most people to know anything about those on the ballot and what they really stand for. Might as well put on a blindfold while you vote…it wouldn’t make it any more of a guess on what you’re voting for.
But we all know the bottom line. This is a democrat strategy to circumvent a republican majority. No one else who is a true conservative would want it, and most young people are either Left wing or haven’t matured enough to give much thought to the consequences of the hotest political issues.
If this passes, expect a mass migration from Idaho in the coming years, while the state turns into a Leftist hell hole of crime, gangs of illegals, and filthy streets like California, and of course democrats will be blaiming rebubilcans for the problems they created… even after most Conservatives have fled to another Red State.
“Candidates could list any affiliation on the ballot, but would not represent political parties, and need not be associated with the party they name.”
So they can be a hard Leftist and call themselves a republican on election day, then switch back to Marxist democrat after they won? Well, I guess RINOs have been doing this, in a way, for awhile now, but this new freedom to claim any standards & policies that will get you elected just for election day only, is too creepy at a minimum.
This will make it next to impossible for most people to know anything about those on the ballot and what they really stand for. Might as well put on a blindfold while you vote…it wouldn’t make it any more of a guess on what you’re voting for.
But we all know the bottom line. This is a democrat strategy to circumvent a republican majority. No one else who is a true conservative would want it, and most young people are either Left wing or haven’t matured enough to give much thought to the consequences of the hotest political issues.
If this passes, expect a mass migration from Idaho in the coming years, while the state turns into a Leftist hell hole of crime, gangs of illegals, and filthy streets like California, and of course democrats will be blaiming rebubilcans for the problems they created… even after most Conservatives have fled to another Red State.
Way to go, Hyrum. Gotta love a voter with the philosophy, “one man, 4 votes”. You should live in Chicago.