On April 18, the Arizona State Republican Executive Committee defeated a proposal to try to stop independent voters from voting in Republican primaries. State law says independents may vote in any party’s primary. Some Republican Party officers had urged the state party to sue to overturn that law as applied to the Republican Party, but the idea was rejected. See this story.
Sorry – each robot party is NOT an independent Empire.
Public Electors making PUBLIC nominations for PUBLIC offices according to PUBLIC L-A-W-S.
Too many SCOTUS morons to count in their nonstop JUNK ballot access cases — i.e. the 2000 CA Donkey case.
Why would it cost $75,000 to sue?
Was there anything in the Libertarian Party lawsuits that was specific to smaller parties?
Yes, the decision noted that the registered Libertarians were hugely outnumbered by the registered independents.
In a new suit by the Republican Party, the district court would start out from the instructions from the 9th Circuit on remand in the Libertarian case.
In particular, the 9th Circuit told the district court to consider ‘California Democratic Party v Jones’. The district court quoted a portion of that decision about the risk of a candidate modifying his position to appeal to cross-over voters, even when he was the candidate of choice of party members.
The Libertarian decision included registration numbers from 2007. Nonaffiliated voters have increased by 59% since then, while Republicans have increased by 9%, and Democrats by 7%.