Three New Hampshire state representatives have introduced HB 98, which would move the non-presidential primary from September to the first Tuesday in June. If the bills passed as written, the petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties would move from August to May, because existing law ties those petition deadlines to the date of the non-presidential primary. And the date for independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, to file a declaration of candidacy would move from June to March.
Another bill by another author, HB 97, would move the non-presidential primary from September to August. Thanks to Daryl Perry for this news.
Does New Hampshire give a qualified party an option to nominate by convention?
ALL 99 houses in the 50 State legislatures [and both houses in the USA Congress] are ANTI-Democracy minority rule regimes —
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged gerrymander areas = 1/4 or less CONTROL = OLIGARCHY.
IT SHOWS WORSE AND WORSE SINCE 1776.
Much much much worse extremist primary math SINCE 1888.
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NO primaries.
EQUAL nom pets
PR — TOTAL VOTES / TOTAL MEMBERS = EQUAL VOTES TO ELECT EACH MEMBER.
https://fruitsandvotes.wordpress.com/2021/01/19/emergency-electoral-reform-olpr-for-the-us-house/
PR IN USA H REPS — CRISIS OR WHAT ???
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/19/an-early-move-democrats-seeks-undo-an-ugly-part-trumps-legacy/
HR 1 — Senate stuff.
Basic Fed total takeover of elections — to get FOREVER RED Donkey CONTROL.
Been coming since 1789.
Walter, no, unless one considers a group that completes the party petition to be a qualified part. A group that completes the party petition does nominate by convention. But the state doesn’t really consider such groups to be qualified parties. For example, they voters can’t register into them and have the state recognize those registrations. And the state won’t give such groups there own heading on the ballot. When the Libertarian Party last did a NH party petition, there was a column for “Libertarians and others” and the independent candidates were in that same column.
Addendum to Richard’s comment above: the “Party Petition” is due at the same time as candidate petitions and can’t be circulated before January 1 of the election year.
Additionally when LPNH had ballot access in 2018 we still didn’t get our own column.
There was a lawsuit several years ago in Rhode Island, I believe around 2008 o 2009, where the court ruled that a minor party status petition, which required a lot more signatures than the statewide candidate petition, can start gathering signatures in the odd year prior to tbe election year. I know that it used tobe this way for party status petitions in New Hampshire, but the law got changed there after the 2012 election, most likely to punish the Libertarian Party for having successfully completing the party status petition there for 2012. Perhaps a lawsuit could be done to get tgis law thrown out, so minor parties in NH can once again start party status petitions in the odd year before the election.
Oh, I heard Darryl W. Perry has been having some health problems as of late. Get well soon, Darryl!
Thanks, on to of the bad Post Concussion Syndrome I’ve been dealing with for almost two years, last month I had a stroke. I’m going to several specialist over the next couple of months and hopefully they’ll be able to plug the hole in my heart and I’ll be able to get off the blood thinners.
There was a lawsuit in NH challenging the January 1 start date of the Party Petition and we lost, sadly.