BILL WOULD REQUIRE STATES TO TAKE TURNS VOTING FIRST
By Frank Davies
San Jose Mercury News
San Jose, California
20 September 2007
WASHINGTON - Frustrated by the ever-changing free-for-all of 2008 presidential primaries, a bipartisan group of senators, including Dianne Feinstein, wants to bring order out of chaos with a rotating system of regional primaries.
Their legislation would bring predictability and fairness to the "pell-mell scramble" the nation faces in a few months, with states moving up their primaries and trying to leapfrog each other, said Feinstein, a California Democrat. Because of the fierce competition to be early, half the states will vote by Feb. 5, and the nominees of both parties effectively could be chosen by then.
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