Fairvote has this interesting analysis of what proportion of voters in Republican primaries and caucuses this year were cast for candidates who had already withdrawn from the Republican race. Thanks to Rob Richie for the link.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Why is this a problem for the states to fix?
It’s probably impossible technically, but it would be desirable for early voters to be able to cancel their first ballot and re-vote. Or maybe there should be more publicity about the idea that early voters might not want to be that early, because everyone knows things change almost on a daily basis.
Richard Winger,
I ask the same question as Jim Riley asks? You have not answered his question as why is it a problem to
be fixed by the States and not the Party rules.
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg
This is called ….not being even as we are all accounted to make progression in our doings ….so if we must take time to fix anything …patience is what we in the world lack which makes any law uneven …don’t cut off voters or than its not a real vote
I deliberately early-voted when the polls opened on the first day so that I could vote before South Carolina.
If a party wanted to address the issue, they could simply award one delegate for every 10,000 votes and give delegates fractional votes.
So in Texas, Rick Santorum had 2,006 votes, he would be awarded one delegate who would have 0.201 votes at the convention. Ted Cruz had 1,241,118 votes, and would have 124 delegates each casting 1.001 votes.
It would be easy to apply penalties for early or later primaries, based on the number of days before or after April 1. 0.98^^(days). So a vote in the Iowa Caucus (60 days before April 1) would be multiplied by 0.298.
For ordinary offices, it would be better to have more frequent voting, such as monthly. Voters would have an incentive to register when they moved to a new residence, since they could start voting then. When children became adults, they could start voting immediately. If people die or move away, they would simply stop voting. If there was a problem with a registration, it could be resolved in a day or two. It would be similar to the case where an ATM is down. You don’t have to wait 2 years before you can get some cash. An annoyance, sure, but not a total breakdown.
For clueless folks —
The ENTIRE Electoral College process is one giant EVIL monarchy/oligarchy gerrymander TIMEBOMB —
which is going off — i.e. the demagogue wannabee TYRANT Trump brain/mouth — who is exploiting ALL of the FATAL defects in the EVIL rotted system the same way that HITLER exploited ALL of the FATAL defects in the 1919 Germany Constitution — to get TOTAL POWER in 1933-1945 —
Result World WAR II — about 70 plus MILLION dead in the world in 1939-1945.
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Save Democracy –
1. Uniform definition of Elector-Voter is ALL of the USA.
2. General election ballot access ONLY via equal nominating petitions
— i.e. NO STONE AGE robot party hack caucuses, primaries and conventions.
3. P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending Head to Head math (i.e. Condorcet math – with a tiebreaker)
— which will take SOME education due to the MORON levels of knowledge about multi-choice elections —
— esp. in the BRAIN DEAD TV talking head media MORONS — who are NOT nonstop attacking the extremist Prez nominating schemes in the various evil rotted States, DC, etc.
Demo Rep- You’re back! I guess the coma was fatal as had been told us.