Although the Independent Party of Oregon had a government-administered presidential primary last month, that primary will not determine whom the party nominates. The party will choose its nominee in July, with a mail ballot to all its registered members. Instant runoff voting will be used. Oregon permits fusion, so the party is free to nominate someone who is also the nominee of another party.
See this article. The article says the party would not be free to nominate someone who sought the nomination of a major party and lost the presidential primary, but based on precedent, that is not correct. In 1980 John Anderson ran in the Oregon Republican presidential primary and was still permitted to be listed in November as an independent candidate. However, it is unlikely that anyone who ran in the Democratic or Republican presidential primary in Oregon would want to be listed on the November ballot as the Independent Party’s nominee in any event.
Could Gary Johnson take both the Libertarian and Independent Party line here?
Two questions occur to me. Richard, you mention that no Republican or Democrat is likely to want the Independent Party line. I don’t doubt that is correct. however, does Oregon require the candidate’s authorization. I am thinking of when Douglas MacArthur was nominated without his permission. My other question is, would this be an easy opportunity for the anti-Trump who want to put David French on the ballot? I would think that the ballot-qualified single-state parties would be their easiest opportunities. Low-hanging fruit, if you will.
Oregon would require the presidential nominee to give consent.
Yes, in theory, the Independent Party and the Libertarian Party could jointly nominate Gary Johnson. If that happened, his name would be on the ballot once with the label, “Libertarian, Independent.” But the two parties would need to agree on a common slate of presidential elector candidates.
@Chris Cole: Well, there may be competition for that low-hanging fruit if Sanders loses the D nomination and runs as an independent — or even if he accepts Stein’s invitation to consider continuing his run as a Green (and of course if our convention in Houston agrees), if some of the fruit is on trees in states where Greens aren’t on.
Or maybe one group will pick apples and another will pick plums, if we stick to the stereotypical colors for this already-overextended metaphor.
IRV ignores almost ALL of the data in a Place Votes Table.
An extreme example — due to the current EVIL super-extremists Hillary and Donald.
49 AMZ
48 ZMA
1 MAZ
1 MZA
99
Place Votes Table
—1—2—3
A 49–1—49
M 2—97—0
Z 48—1—50
The IRV math MORONS love to ignore the mere 97 votes for M in 2nd place.
App. V pending Head to Head math with perhaps an App.V. tiebreaker.