Florida’s Secretary of State keeps a list of initiative petitions that is updated frequently. According to the latest list, the initiative for a top-two system is no longer active.
The proponents raised $75,500 during March and April 2015, but only $5,000 during May. See this campaign finance report. Click on the “campaign finance activity” button. Thanks to Rich Moroney for the news.
Florida has a weird system, where initiative proponents have to gather around 68,000 valid signatures to have the initiative language go to the Florida Supreme Court for judicial review. If the Florida Supreme Court rules that the legal language is OK, then the initiative proponents have to gather another 686,000 and something valid signatures.
It is possible that the proponents of the Top Two Primary initiative in Florida have completed the first 68,000 valid signature round of petitioning, and that the initiative has gone to judicial review.
I have heard rumors in the paid petitioning circles that Top Two Primary is supposed to come back out in Florida.
Hopefully, it is dead, but we will have to wait and see.
Top Two has been great for unity in California. That’s because candidates need to attract enough votes to reach 33.33% (plus one vote) in order to progress into the runoff when there are only three choices. And with each additional candidate, that percent get lowered for all candidates.
My experience before Top Two and after Top Two tells me that it was a step forward got voting system reform.
–James Ogle [Republican], volunteer vote counter
Candidate for President
http://www.usparliament.org
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Top One is even greater for unity Ogle.
Top 2 in CA is part of the nonstop minority rule gerrymander ROT —
1. Unequal votes for gerrymander district winner.
2. Unequal total votes in each gerrymander district.
3. About 25 percent indirect ANTI-Democracy rule —
1/2 votes x 1/2 gerrymander districts = 1/4 CONTROL.
Too many math MORONS in the courts and the general public to count.
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There are two versions, both of which the data bases says have been “withdrawn”. The first which was Approved 3/16 was withdrawn on 5/20. This is the version that you had previously blogged about.
The second was Approved on 5/21 and “Withdrawn” on 5/27.
The two versions were fairly different – more than a sentence or two. It is possible that the language is still being refined.
thank you, Jim.
How often will the top 2 candidates both be Stalin / Hitler clones ???
See the current S/H clones in the CA legislature.
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