Illinois State Senator Sam McCann, who has been in the Senate since 2010, may run for re-election this year as an independent. See this story. In his previous elections he was the Republican nominee. However, this year, he did not file for re-election in the Republican primary, which is being held March 20.
If he does petition as an independent, his only opponent will be only person who did file in the Republican primary. No Democrat is running. Thanks to Sam Cahnman for the link.
United Coalition Faces Challenge on June 5th 2018 Election for CA State Senate District 26
Everyone who supports CA State Senator Been Allen’s (Democratic – CA SD #26) proposal should be aware that his plan will create a one-party system in every place where is it used, only the biggest civic group will win under ranked choice voting in single-winner districts, just like in SF where it is used, where SF Democrats hold 100% of the seats and where the voters need not consider other civic groups since the cannot win.
I first spoke about pure proportional representation (PPR) at BAN headquarters in 1993 when I accessed the ballot for Gov. with the Green Party.
But they backed NOTA.
Soon Google derived from my name in 1997, but they don’t want you to know, so I am a lier to everyone who uses Google, Google may never admit how they got their name from my initials joogle.
Now our top candidate in the United Coalition is Mark Herd, running for State Senator in CA SD 26 Ben Allen’s seat, but those who support the one party system being promoted by BAN, COFOE, FairVote and others, they welcome the candidacy and proposals by Ben Allen and so Libertarian Mark Herd’s campaign for PPR is valueless to them.
The One Party welcomes the competition but only PPR can unite us all as one so our priority is Mark Herd (Libertarian).
The United Coalition home page:
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc.html
What is going on with Democrats or Republicans running for re-election or another office as an Independent? There seem to be more and more of them. Any ideas or clues on why they are doing that?