The California, daily newspaper for Salinas, California, has this op-ed by Thomas L. Knapp, criticizing the top-two system for giving the voters only Republican and Democratic candidates in November.
The California, daily newspaper for Salinas, California, has this op-ed by Thomas L. Knapp, criticizing the top-two system for giving the voters only Republican and Democratic candidates in November.
Great article by Knapp!
How many folks in the USA are brain dead ignorant about gerrymanders and resulting minority rule math ???
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
Quite disingenuous arguments by Mr. Knapp. If someone had started voting in California in 1964, they would have had an opportunity to vote for an independent candidate for congress barely over 10 times. And that would be for the entire state, over 1000 races. They would not have had to remove their shoes to count until 2010. Why? Because it required thousands of signatures to run as an independent.
Top 2 eliminated that, and it only takes a few dozen signatures to run for Congress in California for all candidates. Mr. Knapp would have you believe it was the other way around.
Prior to the advent of the Australian ballot, voters could vote for any candidate. Parties could distribute ballots. But those were really only recommendations, and a voter could scratch it out and write the name of another candidate.
Under Top 2 interested groups, including political parties may print up their own lists and distribute them. In California, the state actually publishes those recommendations in the voter’s pamphlet.
Again – CA Assembly [State Reps] Nov 2014
80 pack/crack rigged gerrymander districts
24.2 (repeat 24.2) percent of the voters elected the 41 Donkey robot party hacks getting the lowest votes.
19 of 80 gerrymander districts did NOT have 1 D and 1 R.
The Donkey tyranny regime in CA rolls on.
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P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.