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already appearing set. A primary season that engages only a fraction of the
electorate to choose the presidential candidates is a reminder of how the U.S.
election system excludes many voters and differs starkly from that of most other
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is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes many voters and differs
starkly from that of most other democracies around the world. (AP Photo/Chris
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primary season that engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the
presidential candidates is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes
many voters and differs starkly from that of most other democracies around the
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Holderness, N.H. Super Tuesday is feeling anything but for many Americans, with
the leading presidential contenders already appearing set. A primary season that
engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the presidential candidates
is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes many voters and differs
starkly from that of most other democracies around the world. (AP Photo/Michael
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electorate to choose the presidential candidates is a reminder of how the U.S.
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already appearing set. A primary season that engages only a fraction of the
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Bethlehem, Penn. Super Tuesday is feeling anything but for many Americans, with
the leading presidential contenders already appearing set. A primary season that
engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the presidential candidates
is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes many voters and differs
starkly from that of most other democracies around the world. (AP Photo/Chris
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Bethlehem, Penn. Super Tuesday is feeling anything but for many Americans, with
the leading presidential contenders already appearing set. A primary season that
engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the presidential candidates
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Americans, with the leading presidential contenders already appearing set. A
primary season that engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the
presidential candidates is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes
many voters and differs starkly from that of most other democracies around the
world. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Clive, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2024. Super Tuesday is feeling anything but for many
Americans, with the leading presidential contenders already appearing set. A
primary season that engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the
presidential candidates is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes
many voters and differs starkly from that of most other democracies around the
world. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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engages only a fraction of the electorate to choose the presidential candidates
is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes many voters and differs
starkly from that of most other democracies around the world. (AP Photo/Michael
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is a reminder of how the U.S. election system excludes many voters and differs
starkly from that of most other democracies around the world. (AP Photo/Michael
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As an independent, Christian Miller can’t vote in
Pennsylvania’s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn’t matter
even if he could.
“You’re not really voting for anything,” said Miller, who left the Democratic
Party in 2022. “Every election I’ve ever seen, the candidates have been decided
by the time they get to Pennsylvania.”
What to know today about Super Tuesday elections
* Nikki Haley, Trump’s major GOP challenger, suspends her campaign after being
soundly defeated across the country.
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* The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information for elections.
See the results for elections across the U.S. here.
Pennsylvania is a crucial presidential swing state and the fifth most populous
in the country. And yet holding a primary so much later than other states means
its voters often have little say in choosing the presidential contenders. It’s
the same for voters in much of the rest of the country.
That dynamic is even more pronounced this year with the front-runners for both
major parties in overwhelming position to become the presumptive nominees not
long after Super Tuesday, traditionally the biggest day on the election calendar
when 16 states hold contests.
Academics and democracy analysts said the presidential primary system, in which
a small percentage of the nation’s voters often determines the candidates, is
one of several quirks that make the United States stand out. To some, it raises
questions about whether the world’s oldest and most prominent democracy might
also be among the least representative.
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Voter attitudes might be different if the U.S. were more like many countries in
the European Union that give all voters a slate of candidates from different
parties and then hold a run-off with the top vote-getters, said Danielle
Piatkiewicz, deputy chief operating officer at the Alliance of Democracies
Foundation, a Denmark-based think tank.
“You don’t have the frustrations of where it’s an either or system,” she said.
“Usually you can find a political party that meets your needs.”
Attention to America’s primary system is especially notable this year, a
historic one for elections around the world and as polls have consistently shown
a deep lack of enthusiasm for a rematch between Democratic President Joe Biden
and his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.
As Tuesday’s contests near, Biden and Trump appear on their way to securing
their parties’ nominations even though just eight states will have awarded
delegates through presidential primaries or party caucuses by then.
Paula Stevens, 73, is one of those voters unhappy with the candidate options and
frustrated that the contests are likely to be decided by the time she is able to
vote on March 19, the date of Ohio’s primary.
Grocery shopping north of Columbus, Stevens said she will pass on this year’s
presidential contest. She registered Republican in 2016 specifically to vote
against Trump, but can’t support Biden this year.
> “There’s no choice.”
Paula Stevens
Nick Troiano, founding executive director of the group Unite America, said the
system also fails to engage independent voters, who are prohibited from voting
in presidential primaries in 22 states. That’s 24 million voters who end up
“stuck with the party nominees” without selecting them, he said.
He said gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts
highlights another consequence of independents being excluded from many party
primaries.
“The primaries are really the only elections that matter because the districts
are so uncompetitive these days,” he said.
More than 80% of congressional districts are decided in the primary because the
districts lean so heavily in favor of one party or the other. But a much smaller
percentage of voters cast ballots in those races: “So we have a rule of the
minority, not the majority,” he said.
It’s yet another aspect of elections in the U.S. that sets the country apart. In
most states, a partisan legislature draws the legislative and congressional
districts and can do so in a way that ensures it will hold onto, and perhaps
expand, its power.
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The U.S. is “pretty close to the only democracy in the world” that has the
participants of the government controlling the redistricting process and making
the rules, said Michael Miller, a political scientist who specializes in
democratization at George Washington University. “For a huge swath of our
country, it’s still parties picking what’s best for the current party in
control.”
What several experts said they find most striking about the U.S. compared to
some other democracies is that the right to vote is not enshrined in the
Constitution.
The amendments make it illegal to deny specific groups the right to vote, “but
there is no provision in the Constitution that gives you the right to vote
generally, other than the anti-discrimination provisions,” said Paul Smith, vice
president of the Campaign Legal Center.
What is there is “not the same as saying every citizen has the right to vote and
to participate in a free and fair electoral process. If I could wave a wand, I
would start there,” said Nathan Stock, associate director of the Carter Center’s
Conflict Resolution Program. “That lack of a codified right allows for a lot of
other mechanisms, voter suppression, all kinds of issues that at this point are
fairly unique to American democracy.”
Other concerns include the hyper partisanship prevalent in the country’s
politics and the stagnant nature of the government. The Economist Intelligence
Unit’s Democracy Index, which ranks 167 countries and territories on measures
such as political culture and political participation, lists the U.S. as a
flawed democracy in its 2023 report.
The report warned that if Biden faces Trump again in the general election “a
country that was once a beacon of democracy is likely to slide deeper into
division and disenchantment.”
There is one notable bright spot. Despite hurdles to voting and a selection
process for presidential candidates that can exclude much of the country,
Miller, of George Washington University, said the actual administration of
elections is “exceptional in the United States.”
That is despite years of attacks from Trump, who falsely blames his loss in 2020
on widespread voter fraud and whose drumbeat of election lies has persuaded a
majority of Republicans to believe Biden was not elected legitimately.
> “Despite the growing distrust of the system because of extreme partisanship,
> there’s really no evidence of any real fraud occurring,”
Christian Miller, noting the dedicated professionals running the systems.
“Even well-established democracies have much higher degrees of errors or even
some degrees of violence,” he said. “We don’t really have that — so far,
anyway.”
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Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this
report.
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