Michigan’s November 2018 ballot will be the first government-printed ballot in Michigan history not to have a straight-ticket device, and also the first such ballot in history not to have party logos. A logo is a cartoon showing the symbol for each particular party.
See the November 2018 ballot at this link. Scroll down. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Page 3
Prop 18-2
Gerrymander Commission
The data for the 4 ed boards is *base* gerrymander data —
worse in 2018 due to the NO logo votes.
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Prop 18-3
Put logo vote into MI Const
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Incumbent judges — near zero opposition (due to harassment by incumbents in courts)
— many quite early and get replaced by a Guv HACK in next election.
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possible more minor parties may become *major* parties — have primaries in 2020.
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more minority rule gerrymander regimes in 2019-2020
USA Reps, MI Senate, MI State Reps, County Comms
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PR and AppV
ONE local judge type – smaller districts
ONE ed bd
TYPO – quite >>> quit
Rare purge of judges when they go powermad nuts — ie dealing with zillion felons and tort folks —
all sorts of liars and other false/defective evidence.
The ballot looks messy and confusing to me. It’s as if someone deliberately designed it poorly to make people wish that they could vote a straight ticket.
Walter,
It looks not much different in design than ballots here in California.
Office bloc ballots – condensed ballots
13 Partisan – 11 State/Fed – 2 Local
12 Nonpartisan – 5 *Regular* Courts
4 Props – 3 State, 1 Local
29 blocs in Wayne County — Possible votes – do the math (esp for judges).
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Many more precinct group forms due to the various gerrymander districts- Fed/State/Local
– need computer to keep track.
less blocs in smaller counties – smaller ballots.
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ALL paper mail ballots — Oregon survives.
It is not clear that is a facsimile of an actual ballot. There are no ovals or arrows to complete. It is particularly busy because there are lines between candidate names. Elections should be limited to no more than five offices or propositions. Any overflow could be held over to the next election, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quaterly, or annually, as necessary.
@DR,
How does California know who desires to have presidential electors appointed who will vote in December in their behalf?
JR —
How about just look up and report the exact full text of the CA Election Code re ballot access of Prez candidates and 12th Amdt Electors ???
Way too many hack machinations to keep track of 24/7 –
RW has a small army of folks trying to keep him partly updated.
Way too much MAJOR election law CRISIS stuff now routinely shows up in SCOTUS not earlier detected/reported.
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/sos/Mandated_Ballot_517304_7.pdf
Ovals / Arrows on *official* ballots — likely to avoid felony scams with *sample* ballots.
CORRECTION —
29 OFFICE BLOCS IN DETROIT – fewer judge office blocs (Dist Ct) in Wayne County outside of Detroit.