Vermont Senator Anthony Pollina (Progressive-North Middlesex) has introduced SB 76, which would move the Vermont presidential primary from March to whatever day New Hampshire holds its presidential primary. New Hampshire law says that the New Hampshire presidential primary must be earlier than any other state’s presidential primary.
Vermont requires 1,000 signatures for candidates to get on the presidential primary ballot. However, New Hampshire does not require petitions for presidential primary candidates, and lets anyone on the presidential primary ballot who pays a filing fee of $1,000. If the Vermont legislature wishes to pass SB 76, the legislature would be wise to abolish the petition, because it takes time to process petitions. New Hampshire is able to administer its presidential primary very quickly after the state settles on a date, and part of the reason New Hampshire is so flexible is that it doesn’t require petitions. Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news.
What can cause grief and mayhem to major party national committees is always welcome. Good to remember that the sanctions for such things is halving or otherwise diminishing the convention delegation from the offensive state, but as both are only coronation fests, a real public service is done when the major party sandcastle is smashed.
Go SB 76!
How about daily primaries by the robot party HACKS starting the day after a Prez election day ???
The MONSTERS in Dumb City have created a KILLER EMPEROR – MONARCH in the form of each Prez — and the People are paying the price —
nonstop INSANE UN-declared WARS and INSANE annual deficits and INSANE UN-funded future liabilities.
3 Insane strikes and the USA is O-U-T.
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NO primaries.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
I hope this bill passes and Vermont tries to hold its primary on the same day as NH. There is no reason that any one state should be able to unilaterally set itself up as the state that gets to go first for holding presidential primaries.
God did not send Moses down from Mount Sinai holding a tablet that said, “Thou shalt hold no other primaries before New Hampshire.”
Is N.H. the granite State — due to the rockheads in the regime ???