| State | Primary Type | Primary Date | % voters in primaries of consequence | % of seats decided in primary |
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Follow the 2022 primary season in real-time as Unite America tracks how partisan primaries disenfranchise voters, distort representation, and fuel political division.
Only 10% of all eligible voters cast ballots in primaries that effectively decided 83% of Congress.
So far only 8% of all eligible voters have cast ballots in primaries that effectively decided 84.8% of Congress.
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That’s because gerrymandering and partisan self-sorting have created “safe seats” in which the winner of the primary is all but guaranteed to win the general election. The result? A small, unrepresentative group of voters determined the outcome of the majority of the country’s elections. And, it’s only going to get worse in 2022.
We can solve the primary problem by replacing taxpayer-funded partisan primaries with a single, nonpartisan primary open to all voters and all candidates. Four states have already done just that.
Candidates are rewarded for representing all of their constituents, every voice is heard, and all votes matter.
The Primary Problem report uses new data and aggregates existing research to identify what's wrong with our primary system and how it can be fixed to put voters first.
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