Open primary proponents say that adding unaffiliated voters to Republican primary elections results in fielding more “electable” candidates. The data shows a different story.
How has Open Primary Helped the Colorado Republican Party? It has not.
Republicans-Only Primary (January 2016)
Governor – Democrat
Attorney General – Republican
Treasurer – Republican
Secretary of State - Republican
US Senator (2) – Democrat, Republican
US Congressmen (7) – 4 Democrats, 3 Republicans
State House (65) – 34 Democrats, 31 Republicans
State Senate (35) – 18 Democrats, 17 Republicans
State House Republican Grades (CUT) – 8 As, 7 Bs, 6 Cs, 3 Ds, 7 Fs
State House Republican Grades (POL) – 12 As, 7 Bs, 6 Cs, 4 Ds, 2 Fs
State Senate Republican Grades (CUT) – 1 As, 2 Bs, 0 Cs, 2 Ds, 12 Fs
State Senate Republican Grades (POL) – 2 Ds, 13 Fs
CO BOE (7) - 3 Democrats, 4 Republicans
CO BOR (9) - 4 Democrats, 5 Republicans
Registered Republican - 1,107,533 (31.0% of all Registered Voters)
Open Primary (January 2021)
Governor – Democrat
Attorney General – Democrat
Treasurer – Democrat
Secretary of State - Democrat
US Senator (2) – Democrat, Democrat
US Congressmen (7) – 4 Democrats, 3 Republicans
State House (65) – 41 Democrats, 24 Republicans
State Senate (35) – 20 Democrats, 15 Republicans
State House Republican Grades (RLC) – 3 As, 4 Bs, 4 Cs, 8 Ds, 5 Fs
State Senate Republican Grades (RLC) – 2 Ds, 13 Fs
CO BOE (7) - 4 Democrats, 3 Republicans
CO BOR (9) - 5 Democrats, 4 Republicans
Registered Republican - 1,084,522 (26.3% of all Registered Voters)
Since Open Primary, Republicans have
- Lost 15 statewide seats; all top statewide offices, 1 US Senate seat, 7 State House seats, 2 State Senate seats, 1 CO Board of Education seat, 1 CO Board Regent seat, and ~23,000 Republican Voters left the party (~5%).
At the Capital, Republican legislators' scores based on their votes on bills versus our Constitution & Conservative Platform Principles, dropped from Ds & Fs at a sad 48% in 2016 to a horrid 74% Ds and Fs in 2021.
WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE REGISTRATION OF REPUBLICANS (AND DEMOCRATS) FALL AS VOTERS GAIN MORE INFLUENCE IN GOVERNMENT BY BEING UN-AFFILIATED WITH EITHER PARTY.
Also, it’s interesting to note that after Colorado went to universal unsolicited mail ballots there is an influx of Unaffiliated voters just prior to three elections and their removal from the voter role immediately after two. It seems that the Secretary of State’s office stopped being concerned with having ghost voters on the roles after the 2018 election. (Watch Dr. Douglas Frank explain that the electronic voter roles have been manipulated to include voters who are not real people - https://rumble.com/vf8iq3-scientific-proof-television-special-on-election-fraud-by-mike-lindell.html?mref=2oodx&mc=8wf7a)
The charts below show (top) the loss of registered Republicans in Colorado under each of the past GOP Chairmen who supported opening primary elections to Unaffiliated voters and (bottom) the loss of taxpayer funds with the additional cost of elections where each voter who does not want to affiliate with either party is provided two ballots – one for each of the major parties with which they have chosen to NOT AFFILIATE. 
“Republican” candidates who received outside money for their primary elections – how much they received, and their 2021 Liberty Scorecard results.
