Two States Hold Minor Party Primaries on August 14, But Election Returns Are Not Easy to Obtain Yet

Wisconsin held primaries on August 14 for the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties. However, the Wisconsin state elections office does not compile unofficial returns and disseminate them on its web page. The news media gather the returns for the Democratic and Republican Parties on election night, but they don’t do that for the minor party primaries, so we must wait until the state has its official returns to see any minor party primary results.

Vermont held a primary on August 14 for the Progressive Party, and the Vermont Secretary of State does post unofficial returns. However, all of the statewide candidates in the Progressive Party were write-in candidates in the party’s primary, and the write-ins haven’t been tallied yet.


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Two States Hold Minor Party Primaries on August 14, But Election Returns Are Not Easy to Obtain Yet — 8 Comments

  1. One more reason —

    NO primaries.

    Cost per primary vote vs general election vote ???

    PR and AppV

  2. Second Mid-West Super-state Parliament Circuit #8
    https://usparliament.org/ss8.ph

    Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin
    8/6/2018 to 8/5/2022

    Prime Minister: Aldous C. Tyler[Green]
    Secretary: Joshua Paul Angell [Socialist]
    Prime Minister: Michelle Bencriscutto [Libertarian]
    Secretary: Jayson Keniston [Christian]
    Prime Minister: Andy Schuler [Ecology and Democracy]

    President: Tina Lorbetsen [Democratic Reformist]
    Vice President: Jeff Fecke [Anarchist]

  3. How many USA/State laws against attempts to have replacement regimes ???

    See the Apr 1861 Prez Lincoln Proc.

    Again – *parliament* has a GOVERNMENT connection — for about 800 plus years.

  4. Words associated like parliamentary, parliament, free parliamentary, parliamentarian, etc…certainly have bad connotations form past history.

    And people who want division and conflict can find plenty of past history so to reject the use of the word.

    Our team uses the words to imply pure proportional representation and I know that’s confusing because of past history with people trying to replace a regime.

    But we like it and think it’s unfair that when Sergie Brin joined our conversation in October of 1997 and changed his search engine program from http://www.backrub.com to http://www.google.com, and then he directed all search traffic away from any references to the words parliament away from our site.

    What that did was to establish odd groups which had no use for pure proportional representation (PPR) and many of them became successful from google I am sure it may have happened.

    Ours is about mathematical unity and that’s what google and the political party bosses, don’t want you to know.

    Because only the party bosses know everything, their own party (or independent) is better and smarter than everyone, and so when everyone is exposed to our thinking they want to imitate. When they use PPR then our team will blend in and unite.

    But plurality elections have a saying; “Fighting makes you stronger”. So they want to bring conflict and fights over anything because nit-picking is acceptable in politics.

    Ours is a new idea, and a new saying, it’s “Working together make you stronger.” Thanks DR, for working with us, your comments and suggestions are often very helpful and appreciated.

  5. Will Trump use the Ogle group machinations as an excuse to declare a rebellion exists to overthrow the USA/State regimes ??? — so Trump dictator martial *law* must be enforced —

    *parliament* has a super-dangerous meaning —

    the same HACKS having both legislative and executive powers (and even perhaps judicial powers) — as in the Brit regime in 1776.

    Thus – NO exec hacks in the 1776-1789 State legislatures – State Consts

    — at least SOMETHING *structural* learned from the 1066-1776 EVIL rotted Brit regime — aka Separation of Powers.

    More *NO* stuff in USA Const 1-9 and 1-10 due in part to the rotted Brits.

  6. The PRIME example of a FATAL *parliamentary* regime —
    the Hitler Third Reich 1933-1945 regime – one result – about 70 plus million DEAD worldwide in 1933-1945.

    Even so called *democratic* parliament regimes have all sorts of rot machinations at the top about which party HACK gets which top exec/dept office —

    see the nonstop HACK machinations in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Israel, etc. parliamentary regimes.

    PR and AppV
    TOTAL Separation of Powers.

  7. Wisconsin elections are administered by municipalities. On election night, municipalities are required to report to the county clerk within 2 hours, and the county clerk must report those within another two hours. This is a fairly new law – it might have been triggered by the all the recall elections.

    The Wisconsin Elections web site has links to the county election sites. All the counties I checked, including the largest 10 and the smallest four had results.

    It appears about 0.2% voted Libertarian, 0.1% Green, and perhaps 0.03% Constitution. The Libertarian total is probably somewhat short of 2000 votes. State party officials (if there actually are any) could gather more complete information.

    In Wisconsin all candidates appear on the ballot, with voters selecting parties anonymously. Voters may select a party. If they then vote for candidates outside “their” party, those candidate votes will be ignored. A voter may also vote for individual candidates without selecting a party. So long as they don’t mix parties, this is also valid.

    Some counties reported (1) the number of voters in each party’s primary; and (2) the number of voters who selected the party. Around 10% appear to have selected a party by selecting candidates. This appears to be more frequent for Democrats – perhaps because they had a particularly crowded gubernatorial field.

    Scott Walker is running for re-election so the minor parties are going to be extremely squeezed,

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