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Presidential primary elections
to rotate for selection balance
■ The current system
leaves some states, like
Oregon, in positions with
little sway in elections
By Brian Goodeli
Oregon Daily Emerald
The May 16 presidential pri
mary in Oregon seems less like
the heated competition it was
three months ago and more like a
race for an ASUO student senate
seat.
“At this time, Bush, Keyes and
Gore are the only nationally rec
ognised candidates who are ac
tively seeking their party’s nomi
nation for president of the United
States,” Oregon Secretary of State
Bill Bradbury said.
Bradbury said this year’s sparse
selection of candidates is due to
the current presidential primary
system — one that encourages
states to frontload the presidential
primary calendar. By mid-March,
75 percent of all the Democratic
and Republican convention dele
gates will have already been se
lected.
That, unfortunately, leaves Ore
gonians with little or no say in
who will represent their party in
this year’s presidential election.
“Due to the rush by states to
conduct their presidential primar
ies early, Oregon voters have lost
candidate options and influence
in the nomination process,” Brad
bury said. “To be placed in the
same situation in 2004 is simply
unacceptable.”
Bradbury
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with student programs and infor
mation tables.
“We’re going to try and have a
very visible campaign,” ASUO
State Affairs Coordinator Arlie
Adkins said. “A lot of students
probably don’t realize that there
is a vote coming up in May.”
Interested students from sever
al different organizations, includ
ing the ASUO Executive Office,
College Democrats and Lane
Community College, Oregon Stu
dent Association staff members
and University administration of
ficials sat in a circle with Brad
bury and voiced their ideas for
change in students’ voting habits.
One of the most pressing areas
to address, the group agreed, is
that there are students who are
registered to vote, but who de
In response to this, Bradbury
announced in mid-March his full
support of a proposal by the Na
tional Association of Secretaries
of State (NASS) to establish a ro
tating regional primary system.
The system would eliminate the
idea that states like Oregon have
no say in the direction of the pres
idential primary elections.
Under the proposal, states
would be grouped according to
their geographical position and
would rotate between primaries
in March, April, May and June.
Iowa and New Hampshire would
still retain their leading positions
in the primary selection process.
In addition to the proposal by
NASS, Bradbury’s chief of staff,
Paddy McGuire, said Sen. Slade
Gorton (R-Wash.) is sponsoring a
bill that is similar to the NASS
version, but does not recognize
Iowa or New Hampshire with
their traditional first rights to pri
mary elections.
“It’s pretty clear that the current
system is broken,” McGuire said.
“This rush to the front of the line
has produced a system in which
there are a number of nominees in
March and none in May.”
Oregon has not always been at
the end of the line when it comes
to selecting presidential candi
dates. McGuire said that before
1996, the Democratic and Repub
lican primary races were almost
always undecided by the time
they got to Oregon.
“The Oregon primary used to
matter when [the] California [pri
mary] came up two weeks after
cline because either they feel
they do not know enough about
the issues or that their votes will
not make a difference.
Bradbury claimed that student
votes can make a difference, and
shared a story at the beginning of
the meeting to prove it.
In the 1998 Oregon election, in
which there was only a 38 per
cent voter turnout overall, a bal
lot measure for new parks in
Portland failed by a margin of
1,000 votes. That margin could
have easily been reversed if
younger citizens had voted, Brad
bury said, because a poll right af
ter the elections found that 85
percent in the group of 18 to 35
year-olds said they supported
new parks in Portland.
Addressing the issue of those
who fail to vote because they feel
uninformed, several students ex
pressed a desire to simplify the
language of the ballot measures
Oregon,” McGuire said. “Oregon
always seemed like a good
bounce for candidates to try out
their platform before heading to
California.”
Even though the NASS propos
al would set Oregon’s primary to
June in 2004, every state on the
West Coast would get the same
treatment. In addition, Oregon’s
position in the rotation would
{{it’s pretty clear that the
current system is broken.
Paddy McGuire
chief of staff for
Oregon Secretary of State
Bill Bradbury
jump up by a month every elec
tion year until 2020, when it
would drop back to June.
“I personally support this,”
ASUO State Affairs Coordinator
Arlie Adkins said. “What’s the
point of having a presidential pri
mary if the candidates have al
ready been decided. I think it’s a
good idea.”
Although this proposal will be
decided in the state legislature,
Adkins said students can support
this proposal by registering to vote.
“Bradbury is up for re-elec
tion,” Adkins said. “If students
support this proposal then they
can vote for him. The other candi
dates may support this proposal
as well. But in general, students
should register to vote to make
their voices heard.”
and candidate positions.
Bradbury made it clear that the
voter’s pamphlet is a manageable
thing. The first two pages of each
ballot measure are what he called
“neutral information,” while the
rest of the pages are sections that
advocates or opponents have
paid to include.
Another problem raised was
that students who live off cam
pus are hard to reach. In addi
tion, students who previously
have lived on campus, move at
year’s end and oftentimes forget
they need to re-register to vote.
Possible ways to ease this
dilemma arose through the
course of the meeting, and in
cluded calling students by
phone, sending out mailings and
conducting student forums.
“We’re going to be out pound
ing the pavements, talking to the
students,” ASUO President
Wylie Chen said.
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