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Originally Posted by JCricket
The above law I mentioned is titled Proposition 107. There is another law on the ballots. It is proposition 108. It does the same thing as 107, but in addition it allows the parties to "opt out" of an election process and pick their candidates via assembly or convention.
Essentially it has(could have) a neutralizing effect on 107.
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Prop. 108, by doing away with the direct election of Senators and Congressmen, might find itself at odds with the 17th Amendment. In any case, it's a bad initiative which is profoundly undemocratic and should be defeated.