In the District 5 County Commission race this year, Amy Coble Wise's entry into the main keeps Democrats and Independents from casting their votes in the Primary. Is this fair? Should we not consider having non partisan elections in Walton County? Not only to stop disenfranchisement but it appears to be a more efficient manor or electing local officials.
Here is an article from the National Association of Counties on the spread of Non Partisan elections
http://www.naco.org/sites/default/files/documents/County Elections Partisian or Non Partisian.pdf
And here: an excerpt from the Columbia Law Review
Excerpt from:
Local Nonpartisan Elections, Political Parties and the First Amendment
Nancy Northup
Columbia Law Review
Vol. 87, No. 8 (Dec., 1987), pp. 1677-1701
Published by: Columbia Law Review Association, Inc.
DOI: 10.2307/1122744
Stable URL: Local Nonpartisan Elections, Political Parties and the First Amendment on JSTOR
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