Survey Questions and Candidate Responses
What is your position on whether Connecticut should open its election primaries to unaffiliated voters?
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Dominic Rapini
| Participating Election Primaries are the responsibility of the major political parties. I would urge unaffiliated to engage in the process of determining major party candidates by joining a party that best matches their values and the priorities of their families.
Stephanie Thomas
| Participating Election Although I am aware of the concerns regarding “spoiler” voters, I have spoken with voters who decline to declare a party for many reasons such as fear of reprisal in the workplace, to keep the peace at home, or simply because they don’t like to be pigeonholed and will always vote for a candidate, not a party. With unaffiliated voters outnumbering either major party, I believe it is time to have this conversation if the unaffiliated voter is interested.