"Jay Honeck" wrote

Two ideas:

1. Hold all state primaries on the same day, by law no more than six
months in advance of the presidential election. (This never-ending
electioneering must end...)

2. Make Election Day a national holiday, as is done in many democracies.
(Before you think I've gone soft, though, in order to do this Congress
must eliminate one other national holiday...)

I think #1 would go a long ways toward leveling the playing field, and #2
would help address our absurdly low election day turnout.

Possible ideas, not bad.

One improvement to 1.

There really needs to be two primaries, where the dozen or so candidates for
each party are trimmed down to perhaps 5 choices after the first primary, to
2 choices after the second primary, for each party. Again, all on the same
day, and not too far ahead of election day.

If that is not done, I see a few cohesive minority groups getting their
candidates on the ticket, and the moderate, majority voters, split their
votes among dozens of non descript candidates.

Perhaps not a very good correlation, but I see this type of thing happen all
the time in elections in high school for things like student council, and
prom/homecoming queens and court.
--
Jim in NC