On April 24, the Ninth Circuit upheld Arizona’s voter registration forms, which give a checkbox to the two largest parties and does not mention the other qualified parties. People who want to register into any other qualified party must write them in on a line that is less than an inch long. Arizona Libertarian Party v Bennett, 13-16254.
The opinion is by Judge A. Wallace Tashima and co-signed by Judges M. Margaret McKeown and Marsha S. Berzon. The 19-page opinion says that the Libertarian and Green Parties are not really harmed by not being listed on the forms, and that the existing form serves the government interest in not having to re-print the form every time a small party loses or gains qualification. UPDATE: here is a newspaper story about the decision. And here is another.
Well… isn’t THAT special!
What a joke! If Greens and Libertarians are not really harmed and it is too much bother to reprint forms every time a party qualifies for the ballot they could just remove all party designations from the ballot. After all, the Republicans and Democrats would not really be harmed. Probably then most new registrations would leave it blank?
Ballot access can be achieved in Arizona, at both the state and county level, by having a certain number of people registered to vote under a party banner, so the Libertarian and Green parties are certainly being damaged by not being included as check boxes on the forms. These judges are either being dishonest or they are idiots.
I believe this case ought to be appealed to the US Supreme Court.
One wonders what the Court would have said if only Democrats or Republicans were listed. The unlisted major party could not claim any injury, according to the Court.
Well, this just goes to show that Arizona is the biggest a*****e in the United States.
At the oral argument, the attorney for the Libertarian and Green Parties did make the point about what the panel would think of a law that put only one major party on the card.
The United Coalition allows every voter to proclaim any party/category they wish for the ballot as long as words of slander or hate aren’t used and that is a concept that the 100% can support.
As soon as any particular word for a party/category is given priority over others, that lowers the support for a voter registration system.
We’ve been conducting the unifying voting system of pure proportional representation (PR) for 20 consecutive years and it works fine:
http://www.usparliament.org
How many 9th Circuit JUNK opinions get reversed by SCOTUS ???
Answer LOTS — seem like about 40 percent of the SCOTUS full opinions.
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The party HACK bureaucrats can NOT have a mini-separate form listing ALL of the parties and their abbreviations for the main form ???
People are too broke to Pay Attention
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