Court wrong to support parties

I believe that the same argument used to eliminate the blanket primary could be used to describe the current primary. Truly, the rights of the parties should be less than the rights of the people of the state of Washington. I believe the courts were wrong in supporting the rights of small groups of people over the will of the collective people of the state. We chose as a state to limit the rights of political parties when we voted for our blanket primary. Indeed, it could easily be argued that the listing of any political party on a ballot is supporting one party (or set of parties ) over another.

If the parties want to select their candidates, they should do so in caucus, not in a primary election. The primary is supposed to be a reduction of candidates. In fact, why are any party affiliations listed on the ballots at all? Oh, I know the regulations require it. The regulations were set up by the major parties to support themselves. That doesn’t make them proper or even constitutional.

This is clearly one situation where the states should make their own decisions, and the federal courts should have been told to go hang.

Norman Moss

Snohomish