California State Senator Ben Allen introduced SCA 21 in March, to somewhat change the California top-two system. It is a proposed Constitutional amendment to say that even a person who places second in June cannot advance to the November general election unless that person polls at least 40 write-ins in June.
The bill had been scheduled to be heard in the Senate Elections Committee on May 1, but Senator Allen has removed the bill from the agenda for that hearing date.
NO primaries.
PR and AppV
Is there a rationale for the specific number, 40?
@Bob,
Ben Allen, the sponsor, is forty years old. As persons reaching middle age are wont to do, he was reviewing his life “I’ve lived forty years, and may live forty more. What have I accomplished? I’ll never be able to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. What can I do? I’ll propose a totally useless constitutional amendment.” Alternatively, there are 40 state senators, or Methusaleh’s age (960) divided by hours in a day (24) is 40.
Senator Allen would say that forty is the number of signatures required on a petition to qualify for a ballot position for district office, and 65 is the number required for statewide office. He’d say that write-in candidates should have some skin in the game. Of course write-in candidates also require a petition.
Having the gerrymander concentration camp district HACKS write election laws is like having the 1933-1945 nazi killers in concentration camps write human rights laws.
PR and AppV
Simple — 40 is the HACK’s IQ or belt size.