The Show Me State has an open primary system. As we know, that means registered voters do not have to be a member of a party to vote in that party's primary. Last year Missouri Secretary of State appointed a 11 member commission to review the state's elections laws with goal of increasing early voting. Current law allows early voting, but only for those who won't be home on election day. The commission made recommendations to expand and remove restrictions on early voting but they have not yet been implemented.
Missouri has 8 congressional districts. Two seats are held by Democrats who are running for re-election. The Senate seats are not up for re-election this year. There are 4 legislatively referred ballot measures on the primary ballot and 3 on the November 4th ballot. http://ballotpedia.org/Missouri_elections,_2014#tab=Statewide_ballot_measures
Washington is the Evergreen State. Washington is one of three states to use a blanket primary, or top-two system, which allows all candidates to run and all voters to vote but only moves the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, to the general election. In the congressional race, Democrats hold 6 of the 10 seats in the House. Neither Senate seat is up for re-election this year. The state executives are also not up for re-election this year. There are 4 ballot measures but they won't be decided until the November election.
Conservatives are telling their voters that primary elections are more important that the general elections. http://onemancan.org/your-primary-election-matters/
We on the left must also get that message across to our voters. Sitting out elections this year will be a mistake that will cost us for many years to come. Please take a look at this: http://dccc.org/content/home
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