Delaware Bill Signed, Forbidding Parties from Nominating Non-Members

On May 31, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed HB 11, which tells political parties that they are not permitted to nominate anyone who is not a member of the party. Delaware is the second state this year to pass such a law; Florida is the other such state. State legislators in both states ignored the U.S. Supreme Court’s statement in Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut that states may not forbid parties from nominating non-members.


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Delaware Bill Signed, Forbidding Parties from Nominating Non-Members — 3 Comments

  1. Any *blood oaths* taken by the *members* of each party to support every word in a party platform to the death ???

    Where are those civil/criminal complaints against robot party hack legislators who subvert the Constitution ???

    P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.

  2. Is there any law preventing someone from being a member of more than one party?

    Are there any parties that will revoke membership if someone is also a member of another party?

    If the answer to the above questions is no, then this may not prevent fusion.

  3. If a Delaware voter filled out a voter registration form showing that he or she is a member of two parties, chances are very high that the election commission would either reject the form, or else code that voter as an independent. But there is no explicit law, as far as I know, in Delaware or any states that says no voter can be a member of two parties.

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