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Primary elections don’t serve their purpose. Let’s get rid of them.

The real problem in our political system is not open primaries vs. closed primaries; it is having primaries in the first place.

Then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin (right) embracing Virginia Republican Party chairman Rich Anderson as he arrived for an event in Richmond, Va., in May 2021.
Then-Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin (right) embracing Virginia Republican Party chairman Rich Anderson as he arrived for an event in Richmond, Va., in May 2021.Read moreSteve Helber / AP
    by Kyle Sammin, For The Inquirer
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