"When the California Republican Party adopted a plan to survey the state's 5.3 million GOP voters to decide who should be their party's standard-bearer in future elections, the move provided a compromise ending to a contentious battle over how to blunt the voter-approved 'top two' primary system.
But there are deep questions and some skepticism over whether the party will be able to afford and administer such an ambitious undertaking.
'I don't think it will ever be implemented,' said Allan Hoffenblum, a former GOP strategist and publisher of the nonpartisan California Target Book, which handicaps legislative races. 'They punted.… I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see the state party change its mind between now and June 2014.'"
California Republicans: State GOP trying to craft its own mail-in primary before open primary law takes effect
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