The Reform Party national presidential convention will be August 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The party is ballot-qualified in Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
The Reform Party national presidential convention will be August 10-12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The party is ballot-qualified in Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
The Reform Party thanks you for posting this peice of news.
I know the Reform Party has an active chapter in New Jersey and it has one of the lower bars for getting on the ballot. Do they plan on petitioning there?
#2, New Jersey is one of the eleven states in which there is no such thing as a petition to transform a group into a qualified party. All New Jersey has is candidate petitions. Fortunately New Jersey only requires 800 signatures for a statewide minor party or independent candidate. The signatures are due July 30. If the Reform Party doesn’t know by June or July who its presidential nominee is going to be, it can use a stand-in on its petition. After the national convention determines the nominee, New Jersey then says the actual nominee can be listed, but only if the first petition was submitted (with the stand-in) by July 30. Also New Jersey requires groups that are using stand-ins to file a whole new petition with the actual candidate, by September.
I was once a member of the Reform Party in 1995 when I started the USA Parliament. When I found out that they would not consider advanced voting systems, I switched to the Labor Party and then the Pot Party.
–James Ogle [Free Parliamentary]
Candidate for US president with the Libertarian Party
Currently Registered with the Libertarian Party
Trying to give all voters the liberty to self-categorize without penalty.
Join the Frees,
Opposite gender #1!
(With consecutively alternating genders thereafter)
As a reminder, the 8th USA Parliament uses, and has used since 1995, the ranked choice voting (RCV) system in a 1000-member district through August 5th, 2012. It’s the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, Hagenbach-Bischoff method, where 1/1000ths of the votes (or .999%) plus one vote elects each of the 1000 “seats”
We are eager to improve in case anyone has suggestions.
http://www.usparliament.org/stv.php
Thnaks!
–James Ogle [Free Parliamentary]
“Why do you THINK they called it Google?”
Correction, 1995 though 2011, we elected only 100-member districts, where 1/100ths (or .99%) plus one vote elects each of the 100 “seats”. Also the Hagenbach-Bischoff method, always was the Hagenbach-Biscoff method since 1995.
This is the first year we’re electing 1000 names. But we are too small, and we just had three people resign/withdraw fro our ballot. Chess Master Hon Sam Sloan [Libertarian], chair of the San Francisco Libertarian Party was one of the three who withdrew.
We only have 529 nominees now, and so all top ranked write-ins up through the 1000th name is guaranteed to be elected in 2012.
Thank you for your interest.
–James
Thanks for the info Mr. Winger. Much appreciated.
Yes, and thanks for the free speech platform too, Hon MP Richard Winger [Libertarian]. Since Usenet was closed down by the government around 1997, it has always been difficult to find free speech platforms. We need to encourage this, because from my experience, we don’t have enough of free speech access, especially for political free speech in such a helpful and nurturing political environment.
@5 and @6
1/101ths = .99%
1/1001ths = .999%
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