The Peoples Party has filed to be a political body in California. In California, a “political body” is an unqualified party that will attempt to become a qualified party. Groups that wish to be political parties must persuade approximately 68,000 people to fill out a new voter registration form showing themselves as members of that group.
The Peoples Party earlier had filed similar paperwork in Maine, which requires 5,000 registrations for party status.
Why don’t they just take over the Peace & Freedom Party (and rename it if they so choose)?
Getting 68,000 to register to vote under the banner of a party they have never heard of is pretty difficult.
INDIVIDUALS are nominated/elected — NOT any *party*.
EQUAL nom pets for each office.
So you eat pets for the office? Huh?
Shut up Space Cadet Commander Coty Twerp Quirk. We’re tired of your garbage posts.
The One Party has also filed with California Secretary of State but our filing is for attaining One Party ballot access in 2024 by petition.
That’s a second method and it doesn’t require voters to switch party affiliation.
The new One Party gives mutual respect to everyone, the liberty to register as they wish, and the sky is the limit.
http://www.1ogle.com
Voting going on now. Click the 1 to vote on paper ballot under pure proportional representation.
Taking over a qualified party in California is easier said than done. Years back someone told me Buchanan’s people basically swept the GOP central committee around 2000 but the sitting chairman was just able to appoint more members of his choosing wherever he wanted. Even if it doesn’t work that way in the PFP there’s still the matters of registering as members all across the state, paying dues, then contending with the activists that are already there. I could see a fresh registration drive targeting the contact lists they already have actually being easier in some respects.
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The garbage post from February 3, 2021 at 5:27 pm was left by Cody Quirk.
James, I thought the party status petition in California got thrown out in a court case several years ago. It was an extremely difficult requirement. When Americans Elect successfully completed it in 2011, it required 1,050,000 and something valid signatures. I am not sure if any other party ever successfully completed this requirement in California, but if anyone did, it had to be long before Americans Elect completed it.
I know there is an independent candidate petition in California, so are you talking about this, or is there still a party status petition in California?
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“Fact Checker,” how do you know that this post was left by Cody Quirk?
I thought it was likely at first but my language pattern recognition sense has confirmed it. The test examines sentence structure and word choice. That’s just one of the tools I employ.
“my language pattern recognition sense” – “gut feeling”
It’ll definitely be an uphill battle for this People’s Party to get enough registrants in CA. What they might succeed in doing instead is dropping the Green and Peace and Freedom Parties’ registrations down below the required amount for qualified party status.
California has two methods for a new party to qualify: (1) registration of .33% of the state total; (2) a petition signed by 10% of the last gubernatorial vote. Neither has been declared unconstitutional. The only two groups that ever did the 10% petition were the Henry Wallace Progressive Party in 1947-1948, and Americans Elect in 2011. If anyone were to sue over the 10% petition, the courts would simply say there is no problem, because the 10% petition is not mandatory; a group can just do the .33% registration drive.
@Fred – You seem to forgotten the Alan Keyes faction takeover of the American Independent Party. That was only a dozen years ago, so it is certainly doable.
Didn’t the voter registration requirement to qualify a political party in California used to be higher than .33%
In the Washington Top 2 litigation, Washington AG Rob McKenna successfully argued that a candidate’s political party preference was that of the candidate, and did not indicate endorsement by the party. The issue on remand from the SCOTUS was whether voters might be confused by the party name on the ballot. The district court affirmed by the 9th Circuit determined that voters would be more discerning.
A candidate’s political preference is an individual 1st Amendment-protected Free Speech. There is no legal basis for California to require that such an expression be for an orthodox state-sanctioned party.
California requires voters to disclose their party preference on their affidavit of voter registration, unless they choose not to disclose any party preference. Voters may be prosecuted for perjury if they deliberately falsify any of the sworn information on the affidavit. If a voter were to say that he prefers one party, and he actually preferred another, and he had done so with an intent to deceive he could be fined or imprisoned.
Yet, if that voter becomes a candidate, he is forced to say that he has no party preference.
Jeff, my impression at the time was that Keyes already had a lot of support within the AIP as opposed to sending in outsiders, he had tried to get the Constitution Party nomination earlier that year. I could be wrong. If so then the AIP would be the better target for a takeover, tons of legacy registrants that don’t know where they are and the state wants them to change their name anyway.
@Fred, I agree. It would not take very many people to get involved since these parties, the Constipation Party included, have very low turnouts at their official meetings and conventions. But I don’t recall Richard including California with the list of states that allow parties to easily change their names. Probably why Keyes left and started his “America’s Party” rather than trying to get the AIP name changed.
And I bet that there are still a whole lot of people registered into the AIP that have absolutely no clue what its platforms and positions are. Plenty of voters out there who just prefer to remain fat, dumb, and happy.