Race to the bottom

[guayiya]

Art. I, sec. 4 seems to clearly say yes.   Someone might try to argue 
that the "but the Congress..." proviso does not apply to primaries and 
that those are reserved to state control, but this makes little sense 
given all the caselaw in which primaries are governed by the bill of 
rights and the VRA.
Daniel Hoffman

Sanford Levinson wrote:

>   So the constitutional hook is this: Could Congress simply impose a 
> sane primary system in the face of complete and utter irresponsibility 
> of the states and the lack of any backbone by the ostensibly 
> "national" parties.
>
>
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