Daily Kos features this story about Mississippi’s rules for gubernatorial elections. The State Constitution says that it isn’t enough for the winner to receive the most popular votes. Instead the winner must also get a majority of the State House districts. If no one does either, the state legislature picks the Governor.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_v._Sanders
MS = one more STONE AGE regime – with contempt for the USA Const —
4-4 and 14-1 and 14-2.
Fed indictments of ALL of the MORON HACKS in the regime.
Richmond, VA city elections are somewhat similar though without a legislative pick. The winner of 5 of the 9 city council districts wins the election, regardless of popular vote. If no one wins 5, there is a runoff election with the top two in the popular vote.
It was a close race this past election in which Levar Stoney won 5 districts without a runoff (he and two other candidates had roughly 30%, with several others having single-digit percentages). Although a recount would have probably happened had he been within 1%, I don’t think there were any rules for a recount on the grounds of it affecting one of the districts, even though that’s what matters. One or two districts may have changed results with a recount as they were very close, and then that could have easily forced a runoff (Stoney vs Berry), but alas.
Yet another law written for the specific purpose of keeping the majority parties in power for eternity. This one is especially terrible.
Students —
look for republican [form of government] in the 1787-1788 Federalist.
How many EVIL rotted oligarchs/monarchs in the 50 States ???
Think Stalin/Hitler type HACKS.