Quote Originally Posted by liza View Post

I think we would be well served to standardize voting procedures and voter registration across the country, taking such concerns into account as well as all of the other important voting issues.

That said, voting is really important and voting in the primary is as important as voting in the general -- the outputs can only be as good as the inputs.
In Canada it's just 1 voting standard across all the provinces and territories for federal elections. And no one is required to declare their party affiliation in advance..before going to the polls to vote.

For the past few decades we've had 3 major federal political parties to choose from. Occasionally there has been a 4th...though I must admit I haven't paid attention to the 4th.