Zoltan Istvan said last month that he intends to form the Transhumanist Party, and to be its presidential candidate. In California, groups that wish to qualify for the ballot must notify the Secretary of State. Upon receiving the notification, the Secretary of State asks county election officials to keep a tally of how many voters register into the group. The group becomes qualified if at least one-third of 1% of the registered voters have joined. So far, the Transhumanist Party has not registered, even though Istvan lives in California.
See this interview with Istvan. Also, see this wikipedia page about Istvan. Thanks to IndependentPoliticalReport for this news.
Just what we need, another silly 3rd party with a set of vague ideas and a philosophy hard to even understand. I’m sure, this Mr. Istvan, unless he has several million dollars at his disposal, is going to have less chance of getting the necessary registrants as would the Prohibition Party or the Constitution(al)Party.
Isn’t this a remake of the Natural Law Party?
Well, it’s more post-2000s techno-utopianism rather than post-1970s spiritual utopianism, but it may not be that bad of an analogy…
The California Unity Party will be filing in the state of California later this week and we invite Zoltan Istvan [Transhumanist] to be on our virtual board of directors:
http://www.allpartysystem.org/ib-unity.shtml
Zoltan, if you’re out there, be sure to contact us with your vote for the Unity Party executive, where you’ll be able to pick any title you wish!
If you’re ready for participatory democracy, the Unity Party is your best bet!
Very truly yours,
–James Ogle [Free Parliamentary]
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I think it is great that there will be a national party to fight transphobia and that it’s being led by an apparently cis-male.
Being transgender is perfectly natural: https://medium.com/sample-collection/being-transgender-is-perfectly-natural-8def243a9b5e