On September 16, a U.S. District Court in Rhode Island refused to enjoin use of the state’s “straight-ticket” device on general election ballots. Lusi v Mollis, 10-350. The decision was not surprising, because the same judge had denied relief on September 1 in another case that was virtually identical. That case was Healey v State, 10-316.
Straight-ticket devices injure independent candidates, because they permit a voter to cast a vote on all partisan races without even looking at the ballot to see who is running. And, independent candidates never have their own straight-ticket device. See this story.
The US Parliament New England Super-state Circuit #1
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont
http://www.usparliament.org/ss1.htm
Patrick Sullivan [Democrat], Elizabeth Rozicki [Flying Saucer], James Mason [Atheist], Stuart A. Snyder [Libertarian Green], A. Avi Snyder [Labor], Madison Samson [Non-Party], Michael Merola [Unaffiliated], Adena Wilcox [Info. Not Avail], John Dvorak [Hemp], Nate Marini [Libertarian], Gerald E. Sykes [Republican], Jorge Gonzales [Info. Not Avail.], Dennis Hubbard [Info. Not Avail.], Abe Torkelton [Info. Not Avail.], Joshua Colwell [Green], Victoria Quest [Reform], Dylan Michael Wicks [Pot], Wendy Tischler [Pansexual Peace]
Since when is a New Age voter required to look at an entire ballot ???
With the current ANTI-Democracy gerrymander stuff – only a very few offices and issues are important.
P.R. and App.V.
“Since when is a New Age voter required to look at an entire ballot ???
With the current ANTI-Democracy gerrymander stuff – only a very few offices and issues are important.
P.R. and App.V.”
If you continually engage single winner
districts, all you’re going to hear about
is the “top two”. In single winner
districts, when the top one is determined to
be no good, what’s the choice? The
second from the top.
Personally, I’ll have nothing to do with
single winner districts.
In multi-winner districts, everyone is good.
–James