@lime said in Top-k primaries might be good?:
(regarding SNTV changes)
reserve a spot for the incumbent. Second, assign seats to parties using a rounded-down Hare quota based on party registration—e.g. if 45% of voters are registered Republicans, and there's 5 candidates on the ballot, 2 of the places go to the first- and second-place finishers on Republican ballots.
I am afraid that this would turn voter registration drives into a major industry. Abuses and mistakes could occur. Misunderstandings caused by language barriers could cause noncitizens to be registered by mistake, they would not know what happened but they could be prosecuted.
Perhaps I exaggerate, but people will pay dearly for any electoral advantage.
Also, a lot of people are not aware of which party the are registered with, if any.
BTW The common term for a payment to an person who gathers voter registrations is called a bounty. So if party R is paying $10 per registration from citizens residing in district x, the bounty for those registrations is $10.