The California National Party believes that California should secede from the United States. Its chair, Michael Loebs, intends to file to run for Governor in the upcoming recall gubernatorial election. See this story.
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Edited By Richard Winger
I presume that he will officially run as a No Party Preference candidate?
I bet this guy has a good chance of winning…..NOT!
Is he messing with the CA main earthquake fault line ???
Have the CA commie west coast secede into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ???
I don’t know if a majority of Californians would vote for a candidate to make California secede; but, the rest of the country would and see it happen.
Actually, in a crowded field of candidates, the guy has a chance.
All the more reason for recall elections to use ranked choice voting.
In a crowded field of candidates, a small handful tend to have the bulk of the votes. Look at the results of the last California recall to see what I mean. There was no shortage of random nuts listed, but that did not mean they had a real chance of winning.
In the recall election of 2003, Schwarzeneggar got 48.6% of the vote. Nearly a majority, but not quite. Ranked choice voting could have been used.
True, it could. It probably wouldn’t have changed the outcome. But if you look at the next few candidates below Schwarzenegger, you’ll see that the random wackos did not do well. Lots of candidates on the ballot does not mean just any of them has a real chance to win.
I bet few people will even know who this guy is, and that he will get lost in the shuffle.
Yes, they should use Ranked Choice Voting for this, and for every other election.
Definitely, use RCV.
NONPARTISAN Approval Voting – execs/judics – pending Condorcet — RCV done right.
Cities have nonpartisan voting, and yet people have no problem figuring out which parties candidates are affiliated with.
Maybe California could change its status to Associated State, like Micronesia. They could still use US money, and the US military could still defend them, but they could also be UN members, and have their own trade and immigration policies.
If they were independent, we could keep building the wall around them.
RCV–let’s make politics even more confusing.
It’s really not that confusing. Easy as 1,2,3.
Ranked choice voting in recall elections could prevent absurd outcomes, such as happened in Fall River:
https://turnto10.com/politics/voters-cast-ballots-in-fall-river-recall-election
Good point.
RCV will discredit a winner when a long ballot is decided by redistributing a last place nazi, communist or joke candidate’s votes. Approval voting avoids that problem and is compatible with fill-in-the-bubble systems.
I don’t think that discredits anything.
Instead of arguing whether RCV or approval voting is better in recall elections, let’s just try both in different places, and get some real data.
Good idea, but I tend towards RCV.