On May 16, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee passed HB 2504. It imposes filing fees on candidates nominated by parties that nominate by convention. But it also makes it easier for a party to remain on the ballot.
In Texas, qualified parties, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, always nominate by convention, not by primary. Under current law, no candidates pay filing fees except candidates filing in a primary. The only valid state purpose for the fees is to prevent the primary ballots from being too crowded, so there is no legal rationale for the filing fee part of the bill.
The part of the bill that makes it easier for a party to remain on the ballot would have the effect of putting the Green Party back on the ballot. The Green Party last appeared on the ballot in 2016. The bill says if a party polled 2% for any statewide race at any of the last five elections, it is qualified. So if it becomes law, the Green Party would be back on the ballot. It was on in 2000 and 2002, and also it was on in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016.
Two Libertarians testified against the bill (because of the filing fee provision) and one Green testified in favor of the bill.
Greens on ballots = Divide and conquer RED donkey communists.
LPs on ballots = Divide and conquer BLUE elephant fascists.
What valid state purpose are exclusionary partisan primaries?
Demo Rep: Form your party and get 2 percent on the ballot and unite everybody to get you back off!
The United Coalition USA has the tools to unite not just Green and Libertarian Parties, but all parties and independents.
The Green and Libertarian Parties have always gone all out to put up road blocks between all outsiders but the United Coalition USA is demonstrating teamwork so to break that cycle of division despite the plurality psychology ingrained in all US voters.
Our team has the correct message and the perfect voting system, pure proportional representation (PPR), and we’re bringing the three-party system to POTUS in 2020 despite the dividers.
Every move by the Green and Libertarian Party bosses is designed to stop PPR and bring real democratic processes by the United Coalition USA for the past twenty-four consecutive years.
Our team has been blocked but we’re still competing in the free market of Electors and the unfortunate damaging choices the party bosses make, since the bosses themselves are elected under plurality voting and they only know how to divide and downsize their own numbers especially the unifiers who they rightly view as a threat to the status quo.
Each election continues to be NEW.
INDIVIDUAL candidates are nominated/elected.
EQUAL ballot access tests.
Above — regardless of SCOTUS MORON HACKS since 1898-1890 [official primaries] —
AND THE SEVERAL JUVENILE MORONS ON THIS LIST. [ALL CAPS]
You know, Demo Rep it’s not that you are wrong all that often IMHO, but your delivery really sucks.
The moron comments of the several juvenile morons really suck.
Par for the New Age of moron punks — affected by moron punk ***style*** Prezs since Clinton in 1993.
The SUPER-CRISIS is NOW — HACK monarch/oligarch TYRANTS on the March.
PR and AppV