In the wake of the resounding victory of Proposition 14 at the California polls on June 8th, advocates of continued partisan control of our electoral process have begun to marshal their arguments in an attempt to close the breach CA voters opened in the partisan citadel.

On May 2, 2010 MoveOn.org launched its “most important campaign ever,” an effort to “end the stranglehold that big corporations and lobbyists have on our government.” MoveOn.org seeks nothing less than to “fix our democracy and put We the People back in charge.”

I was disappointed to see that my friend and colleague, Ralph Nader, recently spoke out against Proposition 14, the California ballot initiative that proposes to reform the electoral process in America’s most populous state. If passed, Prop 14 would allow all voters, whether affiliated with a party or not...

The battle over the wording of CA prop 14 — sometimes called the top two or open primary initiative — likely ended yesterday with a ruling by a California Court of Appeals upholding the lower court’s refusal to alter the language that will appear ...