Here is a link to the CNN site for Illinois’ Republican presidential primary. The turnout is rather low. In the Illinois 2008 presidential primaries, there were 899,422 votes cast for Republican presidential candidates; 2,038,614 for Democratic presidential candidates; and 2,672 for Green Party presidential candidates. These total 2,940,708.
By comparison, with 99% of the vote counted in 2012, there are 907,919 votes counted for Republican presidential candidates, and fewer than 600,000 for President Obama, who was unopposed in the Democratic presidential primary.
James Ogle for president here.
I’ve nominated another few names for chair and president of the Boston Tea Party (BTP). Want your name nominated or seconded? Just let me know, and I will be happy to oblige. I’m running for vice chair and president, but I prefer a female name for both. Plus, I think that requiring a seconding is a road block, and should be done away with, along with the winner-take-all plurality single winner click the dot system that the BTP uses. More road blocks.
I’m for a 1000-member team of consecutively ranked names, with plenty of consecutively ranked names as back-ups. One person is too small, and attracts ego-maniacs and rude jerks, and prohibits gender balance – i.e. 50% male and 50% females as in two-member districts. Currently there is no guarantee that gender balance will be attained under click the dot, single-winner approval voting.
I have done the math.
The current BTP regime is not for that, they want to keep the elections of single winners, instead of building a bigger team. Single winners are not teams, but two or more is a team. The more the better.
They continue to be a liability.
With 1000 seats, the minimum threshold for being elected under ranked choice voting is 1/1000ths (or .999%), plus one vote, for each name. Much better.
The current pace of the Boston Tea Party puts victory in about 175 million years. With a 1000-member team, we can reduce that amount of time by about 1/1000ths. Then as a team we’ll start making progress.
I’ve got the plan, and it’s “opposite gender #1, with consecutively ranked names thereafter”. You can tell who is slowing us down, by who they nominate. If they are nominating one person, then they are dragging their feet. We’ve got to pick up the pace and fast.
Want to see some progress? Try ranking names and/or items for decisions, the more the better.
Ranked choice voting is the system the current BTP regime is fighting against, but it’s 1000 times better. What you’re doing is switching from addition to algebra where calibration is used. Percentages.
They’re slowing us down. It’s time that the current regime step aside and take turns. They should just get out of the way. I am disgusted by their actions of late.
This is 2012, and this is the year for victory.
http://www.usparliament.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=539