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Count My Vote launches voter petition to dump party conventions in favor of direct primary elections

Initiative organizers say GOP keeps trying to kill compromise that halted earlier ballot drive.<br>

(Lennie Mahler | Tribune file photo) Rich McKeown, executive co-chairman of Count My Vote, re-launched that ballot seeking to select political party nominees only through a direct primary. He said that is needed because of continual attacks by right-wing Republicans against a compromise law that halted an earlier initiative.