On June 26, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 27 by a vote of 11-4. This is the bill to keep presidential candidates off the presidential primary ballot if they don’t reveal their income tax returns for the last five years. The bill does not affect write-in candidates in presidential primaries. If it is signed into law and not invalidated by courts, probably President Trump will file as a write-in candidate in the California Republican presidential primary in 2020. That would probably cause millions of voters to cast a write-in vote, which in turn would make election administration quite difficult. It costs more work and money to count ballots with write-ins, than it does to count ordinary ballots.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
So Weld could be the only person on the presidential primary ballot?
One more reason to abolish the Electoral College and even the State of RED communist CA.
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Uniform definition of Voter – USA citizen, 18 + yrs olde.
PERIOD – NO crime stuff – NO mental stuff.
PR and AppV
“One more reason to abolish… the State of RED communist CA.” – Demo Rep
There fixed that for ya. No charge!
Ballot interpretation and counting are skewed to certain types of optical scanners and digital data. The technology for intelligent optical scanning of write-in votes using block letters is available, but states resist technology which enables voters to deviate from the duopoly channel laid down for them to keep the duopoly parties entrenched in office.
How many folks since 1960s know what block letters are ???
— ie Decline and near total fall of handwriting
— esp. with phone keyboards abbreviated words, etc.
EG – what percent of US Postal Snail hand written addresses [block or script] go thru on first pass in USPS address scanners ???
Richard, you are right of course. CA stupidly punishes itself with this law. If challenged in court, it could invalidate our Electoral College vote & in some imaginable circumstances throw the election into the House of Representatives & Senate for decision. Just because the Democrats have a House majority doesn’t mean the Democrat candidate will be selected. In fact, there could be a majority for the Republican candidate in the 50 delegations that actually vote for President in the House. A delegation would not vote if its vote was tied. So if a deadlock emerges, then the NEXT House will vote by delegation. And if THAT fails, then VP elected by the Senate will succeed to the Presidency.