2009 House Bill 17 (Allow unaffiliated voters to vote in party primaries)

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Introduced by Rep. Jimmy Higdon (R) on January 6, 2009, to allow voters who are unaffiliated with either the Republican or Democratic parties to choose to vote on the primary election ballot of one party or the other. The bill also prohibits candidates who are unaffiliated with either the Republican or Democratic party from running in partisan primary elections.

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1) All about elections [by newmark on October 31, 2008]
So I know entirely too much about election laws. (And I might expose who I am, disclosing this information)

A political party has the right, using the 1st and 14th Amendments, to choose whatever candidate they so choose. Kentucky's laws preventing non-members of major parties from voting in a party's primary are unconstitutional, if the party wants that to be allowed, per U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Tashjian vs. Republican Party of Connecticut, 1986. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?friend=nytimes&court=us&vol=479&page=215

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2) liberty-lives [by Anonymous Citizen on October 1, 2008]
How is doing that not their protected right. Along the line of thought you seem to take, people should only be allowed to vote FOR someone.
A persons vote is their voice, their highest form of free speech as protected by the 1st Amendment...if they choose to use that vote to take a stand AGAINST someone or something...who are you or anyone else to suggest they are wrong, or that they shouldn't be allowed to vote as they see fit.
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3) liberty-lives [by Anonymous Citizen on October 1, 2008]
The major parties, are free to decide who they want to include in their selection process. All they have to do is to fund the process themselves. As long as the taxpayers are paying for the selection process (primaries) then they all should have the right to be heard. The desires of the parties should NEVER supercede the rights of the people.
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