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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Primaries?
Episode 218

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Primaries?

Edward B. Foley, professor and director of the election law program at Ohio State, and Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America, join Sarah for a conversation about reforming primaries. What does primary reform look like? Their conversation covers political science, history, and math. That’s right math. Can math save democracy?

The Dispatch Podcast

June 1, 202255m 55s

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Show Notes

Edward B. Foley, professor and director of the election law program at Ohio State, and Nick Troiano, executive director of Unite America, join Sarah for a conversation about reforming primaries. What does primary reform look like? Their conversation covers political science, history, and math. That’s right math. Can math save democracy?

 

Show Notes:

-Requiring Majority Winners for Congressional Elections

-Foley in the Washington Post: “How our system of primary elections could destroy democracy”

-The Sweep: “A Focus on the Problem with Primaries”

-Unite America: “America Has a Primary Problem”

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