In 2018, the Libertarian Party had candidates for the state legislature on the ballot in all but five states. This was the first time any party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, had legislative candidates on the ballot in that many states, since 1916. The five states with no Libertarians on the ballot for legislature in 2018 were Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, and North Dakota.
This excludes the states that don’t have legislative elections in even years, which are Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia.
All of the 2018 Libertarian candidates had the ballot label “Libertarian” except for the Tennessee candidates, who had “independent.”
The Libertarian Party had legislative candidates in all but six states in 2000, which is the closest any third party had come in previous years.
In 2016, there were eleven states that had legislative elections in which the Libertarians had no legislative candidates: Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming. There were 14 such states in 2014; 14 in 2012; 12 in 2010; 15 in 2008; 19 in 2006; 9 in 2004; 7 in 2002; 14 in 1998; and 11 in 1996.
How many minor party / independent winners in POWER offices ??? —
Member of the USA Congress
Member of a State legislature
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Save Democracy from Donkeys v Elephants Civil W-A-R II
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Congratulations to the national Libertarian Party USA from the new national One Party.
The One Party is bringing the “Three-party System” to the Libertarian Party on April 5th 2019, the California State Libertarian Party annual convention, by proposing wording changes in the CA LP’s “Bylaw 12” which is linked to the following web page at item “10.”:
https://usparliament.org/stv.php
The way it works, is all voters may join three or more political parties (or independents). For example, I have joined the Libertarian Party’s dues-payment system, I am running for President and registered with Green Party USA and I am proclaiming “One Party” as my affiliation with the pure proportional representation (PPR) Electoral College.
Everyone follow the One Party lead and join the dues-payment system of the Libertarian Party and also help the Green Party USA to help the Libertarian Party with the free marked PPR Electoral College.
Sign up for the PPR Electoral College for free here:
https://usparliament.org/signup.php
The United Coalition requires that you certify that you oppose the initiation of force to achieve political or social goals.
How does a mere human determine which of the 3 parties he/she is active about each second —
dice throw ??? 1-2 party A, 3-4 party B, 5-6 party C ???
North Dakota is common to the list of states with no state legislative candidate every year except 1996, which seems to have been the only year it has ever had a state legislative candidate.
Demo Rep, on the PPR Elector College, you may pick and word(s) by your name as with Green and Libertarian Party.
But each party has different rules depending on how you are actually registered, for example the Libertarian Party allows all parties and independents as dues payers but only those registered Libertarian may vote on internal matters.
Do as you attend each party meeting with which you want to engage, you simply find the traits for each one that you like. But to bring the unity psychology you must also sign up with the United Coalition USA’s PPR Electoral College, because that’s set up with the four-year cycles for UD elections with which we coordinate.
The US national election = the 538-member Electoral College Election
Also, you may switch parties back and forth as you wish, without penalty, depending on what you see as a good fit on any particular day.
The problem in North Dakota is the unique law that requires a qualified party to nominate by primary and to have a minimum number of voters voting in its primary. The number for statewide offices is only 300 voters, but for legislative candidates it is so severe that no third party has overcome it since 1976.
The only Libertarian ever on a general election ballot for North Dakota legislature was Roland Reimers, in 1996, who used the independent petition procedure, which is also very severe. He is the only third party candidate who has used the independent petition since before 1976. In 1976 the American Party got such a large turnout in its primary, it was able to use the primary to nominate legislative candidates.
North Dakota should eliminate partisan nominations and use Top 2.
Jim Riley… Can we eliminate you, Demo Rep, and Ogle from this site? Do any of you ever have anything unique or relevant to say about the actual topic… You just regurgitate the same garbage over and over.
+1 to Aiden’s post.
Demo Rep and Ogle are a conspiracy by Richard to drive people to subscribe to his print edition to avoid them.
The group of 3 noting the ongoing ROT (and remedies) versus the usual know-it-all suspects who love the ROT and/or are brain dead ignorant about the DANGER of the ROT.
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The ROT =
unequal ballot access laws
ANTI-Democracy minority rule gerrymanders — appointments of USA judges.
violations of separation of powers
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TOTAL separation of powers
@Aiden,
The fundamental problem is that there are partisan nominations. This results in minor parties spending all their effort at qualifying to be able to make a partisan nomination, rather than trying to elect their candidates.
In a candidate-based system, the requirements for all candidates to qualify for the ballot is the same. This generally results in attainable ballot access since legislators don’t want to make it too hard for themselves to run.
How many actually won?
JR, the reason why third parties cannot win is because single-winner districts guarantee a two-party system. That’s because the majority always wins except in cases of the split-vote problem and when there needs to be change so the 2nd biggest wins.
No third party nor independent will succeed on a regular basis (and even in odd cases) as long as single-winner districts exist and Top Two elects a single winner.
The best chance for third parties and independents is a two-member district like President and Vice President, being two at-large seats, in the Electoral College of the US Constitution.
Unfortunately, third parties are doing it wrong, for example the national Libertarian Party switched to a one-party system (Approval Voting in single-winner districts) and they moved further away from a three-party system.
For a three-party system to work, you need three parties vying for two seats and that’s exactly what the United Coalition is bringing in 2020.
In 2012 Gary Johnson said “I am the answer to the two-party system” and the Libertarian Party snuffed out the multiple parties working together for that seat, even though we won the primary with 52.7% despite being snuffed out by the party bosses at every turn. We were a team of about ten POTUS candidates in 2012 including Libertarians, independent, Roseannarchist and Green Tea Rainbow.
Here is the wording of one Missouri article about our team:
https://usparliament.org/missourian.php
Now we’re doing again in 2020, we already have candidates from three parties vying in collaboration for the two seats President and Vice President, on the new PPR Elector College, Earth Day 2020. It’s up to the voters to decide by electing the 538 Electors, to be recorded live in Monterey California, on April 19th 2019.
Here is the facebook page in case you use facebook and want to get connected:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/united.coalition.2020/
Go Ogle 2020, Our opposite gender #1, with consecutively ranked alternating genders thereafter.
http://www.usparliament.org/google2020.php
JR –
How soon before incumbent MONSTERS can be candidates by mere affidavits and require non-incumbents to file a zillion signatures or a zillion dollar filing fee ???
ii – have de facto ZERO opposition on the ballots —
see olde RED communist regimes.
Perfectly OK for the SCOTUS MORONS — wanting stable 2 party HACK regimes ???