Fortysix of the fifty states have partisan statewide offices up in 2010. The only states that have no statewide offices up are Mississippi, New Jersey, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Of the 46 states that have statewide races, it appears likely that only four states will have no minor party or independent candidates for statewide office on the ballot. They are Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico, and Washington.
Alabama has no statewide minor party or independent candidates because its petition requirement is so difficult. Kentucky’s only statewide race is U.S. Senate. No minor party or independent candidate is petitioning in that race, which requires 5,000 signatures. New Mexico has three recognized minor parties (Libertarian, Constitution, and Independent Party), but a unique state law says they can’t place nominees on the ballot without a petition signed by 1% of the last vote cast, and none of the minor parties are doing a statewide nominee petition this year.
Finally, Washington state is not expected to have any statewide minor party or independent candidates on the November ballot because the state’s top-two system will block them.
The Libertarian Party, as usual, will have nominees on statewide ballots in more states than any other party besides the Democrats and Republicans. Libertarians will probably be on the statewide ballot in November 2010 in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. All of them will have “Libertarian” on the ballot except for Oklahoma, where Richard Prawdzienski, running for Lieutenant Governor, will have “independent” next to his name, because the Libertarian Party is not recognized by Oklahoma.
HI election official gives an interview to ABC station, confirms that Obama was not born in HI | Dr. Orly Taitz Esquire
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=11842
if in fact Obama was not born in HI as this clerk says, Obama has a very big problem — including Sotomayor to be removed from SCOTUS
Washington only has a US Senate race as a statewide office in 2010. 4 candidates who have expressed no party preference, or a preference for a minor party will appear on the 2010 statewide ballot.
Many IPoD nominations are open.
Wolf von Baumgart,
State Chairman, IPoD
ipodosc@yahoo.com
But not the November ballot in Washington. Those Washington state minor party and independent candidates will only be in an August event, an event which has no legal significance except to end candidacies. The August event should simply be abolished, to save taxpayer money and enhance the dialogue in September and October. This year Washington state won’t even print a Voters Pamphlet for the August event. Only in November, the true election (as mandated by federal law) will there be a Voters Pamphlet.
Yes, it’s a very sorry scene up here in WA. I’ll vote for the indie and alternative party candidates in August, but only on initiatives in November. And next time, California will be among those states with only Democrats and Republicans on the ballot in Nov.
#4 The word you are searching for is “election”
All voters and candidates in the August election in Washington will be free and equal, voters to vote for any candidate, candidates free to campaign for votes from any vote. The election will winnow the field to the Top 2 who will advance to the November event.
The state of Washington had never published a voter pamphlet for the primary prior to 2008. The legislature did not appropriate funds. Many counties do include the candidates in their county voter pamphlets.
Give it up Riley,
Washington will hold a one party, Soviet styled “primary” in August, where every candidate and every voter is forced to participate in a single party primary or stay home.
Then, in November, comes the show “event” where one of the single party candidates wins a seat.
Nice system, comrade Riley.
Free elections no longer exist in Washington State.
Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary defines “election” to mean “an act or process of electing”. But the Washington August event does not and cannot elect anyone to office, even if only one person is running and gets 100% of the vote. The person is still not elected. All the Washington event is, is a ballot access barrier which clears the way for, at most, two people to be allowed access to the November ballot.
Election = making choices — by Electors.
How come the third party folks were SO LAZY in WA and did NOT file to get on the ballots ???
GETTING ANY votes in the WA top 2 primary may/will cause 1 or both of the top 2 candidates to request the support of 3rd party candidates.
P.R. and App.V. = NO primaries are needed.
Advanced math —
Number Votes AND YES/NO on candidates — but MAJOR education will be needed due to dumb and dumber so-called public education.
“Webster’s Ninth Collegiate Dictionary defines “election” to mean “an act or process of electing”. But the Washington August event does not and cannot elect anyone to office, even if only one person is running and gets 100% of the vote. The person is still not elected.
All the Washington event is, is a ballot access barrier which clears the way for, at most, two people to be allowed access to the November ballot.”
Very good observation Richard.
Free elections – ended!
Debate – quashed!
State mandated one-party system!
Comrade Riley loves it.
All hail the new Soviet State of Washington!
How can the political hacks and would-be dictators be so clueless? Once the possiblity of debate and public airing of issues has ended, once the people see that they have no chance of having their views heard or of making political change in a peaceful way through elections, the result is always violence. Don’t these morons know that Timothy McVeigh was a supporter of the Populist Party which was killed off by restrictive ballot access and financial party and campaign donation rules and limits? Don’t they realize that it was the lack of a political voice in the general elections that led him to the Oklahoma City bombing when faced with no political outlet? Washington and the California cut off from free elections will disenfranchise over 10% of the US population – what do you think the end result will be if these evil laws are allowed to stand?
God almighty Comrade Riley – it’s time that you wake up to the fact that your system is evil, not free, and that we must open up the electoral system to all paties and independent candidates.
When the next bombing comes it will be all the evil backers of the “Top-Two” one-party takeover who have the indelible stain of innocent blood on their hands.
NOTA/write-in/OTB option the only alternative in the new world order of top-two (but unfortunately some top two state election laws (e.g. CA Prop 14)attempt to ban or at least impair if not count write-in voting in final general election)
#10 How many top 2 NONPARTISAN primary systems are in local regimes in the U.S.A. ???
See also the allegedly nonpartisan NE legislature — with a top 2 nonpartisan primary since about 1934.
Does the NE manage to survive ???