With a historic number of open all-candidate primary initiatives on the ballot, 2024 is poised to be remembered as the year voters demanded a better way to conduct elections. This type of electoral innovation is exactly what the founders intended.

Most people agree that immigration, the national debt, and education are urgent problems, yet year after year these issues go unaddressed. More often than not, politicians would rather use these issues as political cudgels to win the next election rather than achieve a legislative outcome that improves the lives of their constituents. And they do so because the closed primary system incentivizes political grandstanding over the hard work of legislating solutions.