Andrew Gumbel, an author, journalist, and former foreign correspondent in many countries, has this op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. He argues that California’s top-two system isn’t working well and should be changed.
Read about Gumbel here.
UPDATE: also, CalMatters, an on-line publication about California politics and government, has a very detailed analysis by Ben Christopher of the 2018 races in which Democrats may be left with no candidate on the November ballot, even in districts carried in November 2016 by Hillary Clinton.
FURTHER UPDATE: this piece by Mike Feinstein in Fox & Hounds makes some points that other articles on this subject have not made.
Perhaps the genius folks are now reading BAN and learning something about the ROT in all governments in the USA ???
The United Coalition California is bringing together not just female candidates for California Governor, but also female write-in candidates for Governor of California and US Congress, as well as male candidates who want to unite in voluntary 50/50 partnership under Top Two.
Men an women voters in California can unite for 50/50 gender balance under California ‘s Top Two when voters randomly vote for our opposite gender with consecutively alternating genders thereafter, all voters united and voluntarily collaborating.
The dividers don’t want you to know, that San Francisco and other elections using ranked choice voting in single winner districts create a civil rights problem. And that top two is good for guaranteeing equal and fair treatment, through collaboration, cooperation and teamwork.
The United Coalition has been using advanced parliamentary proceedure and pure proportional representation (PPR) for more than twenty-three consecutive years correctly despite the censorship, bullying and lies by the party bosses who are elected under plurality elections.
They have no use for teamwork, only for hostility and conflict, and cooperation with the 100% is not an option for dividers.
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
NO primaries.
PR and AppV
Yikes — F&H story — how big is the CA primary ballot in many gerrymander districts having LOTS of candidates ???
Enough room even with both sides ???
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/candidate-statements/
BIG cash in CA or what ???
What percent of the paperwork gets re-cycled ???