{"id":100684,"date":"2022-08-15T19:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=100684"},"modified":"2022-08-15T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T19:16:00","slug":"algop-votes-to-close-primaries-starting-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=100684","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;ALGOP votes to close primaries starting in 2024&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2022\/08\/15\/algop-votes-to-close-primaries-starting-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\">AL Political Reporter:<\/a>  &#8220;The State Executive Committee of the Alabama Republican Party voted overwhelmingly in favor of recommending the restriction of primary participation to registered Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The resolution requests for republican lawmakers to pass a bill closing the primaries ahead of the 2024 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recommendation was expected, as Republicans began discussing the matter after seeing Democrats sharing that they had participated in the Republican primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that when we look at how we should exemplify what we do as far as running elections and how to run a state, we can look to Gov. (Ron) DeSantis in the state of Florida,\u201d said Baldwin County GOP Chairman Michael Hoyt. \u201cFlorida has done a knockout job. Florida has closed primaries. It has party registration. The time for open primaries is over.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Political Reporter: &#8220;The State Executive Committee of the Alabama Republican Party voted overwhelmingly in favor of recommending the restriction of primary participation to registered Republicans. The resolution requests for republican lawmakers to pass a bill closing the primaries ahead of the 2024 election. The recommendation was expected, as Republicans began discussing the matter after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100685,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100684\/revisions\/100685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}