On February 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 207, which takes effect immediately. It lets voters change their party on election day, or at any time during the two weeks before a primary or an election. They already had the ability to change if the change was made earlier than that.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
Game playing. How corrupt.
Question for Richard Winger: https://www.diamondandsilk.com/blog/2020/02/13/breaking-virginia-passes-bill-to-give-electoral-votes-to-popular-vote-winner/
Can states do this in effect by pass electoral college? Is no one challenging this?
The National Popular Vote Plan doesn’t bypass the electoral college. There is nothing in the US Constitution that tells states how to choose electors. Among the original states (i.e., the 13 colonies who won the independence war), all but two of them at least once had their state legislature choose the electors, instead of using a popular vote. As late as 1876, the Colorado legislature chose all the electors instead of the people. In 1892 Michigan had each US House district choose its own elector. In 2000 one house of the Florida legislature passed a bill in December to let the legislature choose the electors.
It will be interesting to see how many Republicans switch over to the Democratic primary, and for whom they will vote.
Richard answers this question, but when asked about censoring, and why Demo Rep can make violent posts, he hides. Pretty pathetic.
NO govt party registration PURGE lists — see Hitler/Stalin PURGES.
Abolish the late DARK AGE EC — 1 of the 3 USA minority rule gerrymander systems.
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Is the resident troll MORON a USA domestic or Russia foreign stooge govt agent ???
The other pre-skoool juveniles want to know.
It’s Richard’s platform. He’s entitled to let on it whomever he pleases.
DemoRep is a good source of news for me.
So Demo Rep can post nonsensical rants, call people morons, and threaten violence, but if someone makes fun of him or calls him out, they are deleted and possibly banned? Don’t you see the hypocrisy and double standard?
You really should post a set of rules of what is and is not allowed here, and who that applies to.
Demo Rep is not as nonsensical as you think. You just have to get used to his style.
I first met Demo Rep at a national meeting about alternative voting systems in the early 1990’s. He has for years sent me news items that I use. He donates to COFOE. He is very well-informed about many arcane election law matters. You may not realize how many posts I have thanked him for, because I have traditionally thanked him using his real name.
So that allows Thomas Jones to call people morons? He can insult us but not the other way around? Richard, you are talking out of both sides of your mouth. Are you afraid he will go on a rampage if you ban him?
It’s one thing for someone to call others “morons”, and another thing for people to post truly low-down disgusting things.
Like Thomas Jones (Demo Rep) calling for violence on people? That is low-down to me. Saying someone lives in their mom’s basement does not qualify. Saying a guy wears a diaper does not qualify.
What’s up with letting Ogle constantly spamming? Notice he has zero votes so far.
Please post your rules and who they apply to.
You and I have a difference of opinion.
The resident pre-skooool MORON can start up its own website about all moron things possible
esp those NON-humorous slander/libel postings–
and leave adults to END the rule of the statist LOOTER CONTROL freaks monarchs/oligarchs in the USA.
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Thomas Jones (Demo Rep), you are the MORON here. Why don’t you get off your computer and run for office instead of complaining? We now know your real name, thanks to Richard’s hint.
The resident MORON — too much of a MORON c-o-w-a-r-d to disclose its 666 real name ???
and which govt it is part of — USA, Russia, China, etc.
Its too bad these articles Demoreo sends can’t be found from a Google news alert.
SB 207 was a bill dealing with asthma. The House stripped out all the original language and stuffed most of a bill that Governor Newsom had vetoed last year. They sent it back to the Senate to concur in the amendments.
The way the Libertarian, Democratic, and American Independent primaries work, is that NPP AND other (non-qualified) registrants may request their ballot.
A Republican could change to the Trump Party and request a Democratic ballot.
If the Common Sense Party was up to their game, they would be encouraging voters to change to Common Sense before they voted in the Democratic primary.
Thomas Jones (Demo Rep), you are the MORON coward who wouldn’t disclose his real name. Richard had to give a hint before you were exposed.
So why are you so excited about Demo Rep’s actual name? It’s just another name if you don’t know him personally.
Does this law matter for anything else besides the presidential primary? I thought that under Top Two, any California voter could vote for any candidate in the (non-presidential) primary anyway. If not, how does Top Two work?
This law also matters for voting for party central committee members. Only party members can vote on that office.
Demo Rep’s apocalypticism is typical of our age. Just listen to Trump on immigrants or any Democrat on climate change.
The brain dead minority rule gerrymander politics since 1776 has reached a CRISIS point-
akin to the CRISIS in 1854-1860.
The Donkey RED communists want an instant 20-30-40-50-60 percent increase in govt control of the economy — from the current about 40 percent.
The Elephant fascists are now quite willing and able to PURGE the top Donkeys.
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regardless of the resident NUTCASE freak worried about names and NOT the actions of the powermad freaks in Devil City – esp undeclared wars and govt super-debts.
A few comments:
(1) This is really the only site I know of for this type of information, and a lot of it is critical knowledge. Professionals working in ballot access have told me they rely on BAN.
(2) A lot of the information wouldn’t pop up on Google search unless you already knew what to look forand where. It’s pretty clear Mr. Winger relies on the kind of people who do things like show up at court hearings, follow meeting agendas and minutes, or at a minimum see things on obscure local news sources and forward to him.
(3) Therefore we ought to give maximum gratitude and maximum slack to both him and the people he relies on.
(4) And of course all that’s on top of the fact that it’s his site and he can do what he wants.
@ eeyn:
That’s right. Richard is a unique source, and has been around a loooooooooooooooong time. I hope he is training a successor.
Maybe it’s Demo Rep.
Demo Rep (Thomas Jones) doesn’t go to hearings or do anything except sit on the computer and type MORONIC NONSENSE.
What is his job?
Detecting pre-skoool politics MORONS and reporting on them
AND detecting the many ANTI-Democracy defects and machinations of the Anti-Democracy statist monarch/oligarch control freaks and their stooges, hacks, trolls, etc.
AND stating reforms/remedies to the now TYRANT ROT.
Now a full time task due to the SCOTUS MORONS since 1960s — esp ballot access and gerrymander cases/ops.
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Federalist 47, Madison.
How many actual and wannabee TYRANTS in 2020 USA ???
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I don’t know what MORON Thomas Jones does for a living, if he works. He seems like a crazy recluse to me.
Has the obsessive paranoid resident MORON ever posted some useful info about election law stuff ???
Can it get professional mental aid help ??? — Obamacare, etc.