Imagine if Alabama football coach Nick Saban chose the players for the Auburn football team. Or vice versa with Auburn coach Gus Malzahn choosing the Alabama football team. That’s the analogy Terri Lathan, chair of the Alabama Republican Party, made Monday in explaining why state GOP leaders want a closed primary in the future. A closed primary, of course, would allow only registered Republicans to vote in Republican primaries. In short, no Democrats allowed. And the same in the Democratic primary — no Republicans allowed.
“We live in a very football-analogy state,” Lathan said in an interview with AL.com. “Can you imagine if the University of Alabama team got to pick the Auburn players? Or the Auburn coaches got to pick the Alabama players? The governor would have to call out the National Guard. It could be that serious.”
The Alabama Republican Executive Committee passed a resolution last month calling for closed primaries. That resolution received 76 percent of the vote, Lathan said.
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