Presidential Primary Schedule

Donald N. Anderson and Parry Scherer  have prepared a proposal (Florida-Alaska Plan) for a revised presidential primary schedule. It constitutes a variation of the Delaware plan schedule. The links on this page are quite preliminary and may not be the most succinct descriptions of the plans. Please e-mail us with better links and missing plans.

Our proposal:

The Florida-Alaska plan for presidential primaries

Florida-Alaska Plan.doc (MsWord document)
Florida-Alaska Plan Spreadsheet.xls (MsExcel workbook)

A summary of most primary schedule proposals:

 

Presidential primaries

summary.doc (MsWord document available soon)

Presidential primaries

spreadsheets.xls (MsExcel workbook available soon)

FairVote summary of Delaware, Rotating Regional, and California Plans

 

GOPUSA summary of Texas, Delaware, Rotating Regional, and California Plans

 

Goodspeed summary of National, California (American), and Levin-Nelson Plans

 

Wikipedia primary description with summary of California (American), Delaware, Rotating Regional, Interregional (Levin-Nelson, and National Primary Plans

Links to information on other plans:

California (American or Graduated Random) Plan

Wikipedia description

FairVote description 

Thomas Gangales American Plan site

Delaware plan

Wikipedia description

National primary

Wikipedia description

National primary - many vote periods

NYT - Jonathan Soros column

Rotating regional plan:

Wikipedia description

Levin-Nelson (Interregional) Plan:

Wikipedia description

Sandy Levin press release

Dingell-Anuzis modification of Levin-Nelson Plan:

Proposal description

Texas Plan

W. Gardner Selby description

Revised 15 January, 2008