I haven’t always supported open primaries, but times have changed. Over the past decade, when campaigning for election to the Maine Senate, I came across an increasing number of voters who felt that their voices were not being heard. Today, nearly four in 10 Maine voters have unenrolled from the political parties or were never enrolled to begin with.
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