On January 30, the Maryland Libertarian Party filed this reply brief in Johnston v Lamone, 1:18cv-3988. This is the case on whether it is constitutional to force an unqualified party that has over 10,000 registered members to submit a petition of 10,000 names. The Libertarian Party has over 22,000 registered members, and argues that a petition of 10,000 names would prove nothing, because it is obvious that there are already over 10,000 people who support the party.
Even if you don’t normally read legal briefs, this is one clear, short, and even somewhat entertaining.
As I am related to the 1st and 2nd Governors if Maryland and the Ogle House where they entertained George Washigton is the US Navy’s Admiral’s Club, I have a special affinity to the great State of Maryland.
Speaking of Presidential politics I am bringing a new theme today, reverse identity politics.
The theme of “reverse identity politics” is to find individuals, from both political parties and independents, who are not like you and who are proven, trustworthy team players/coalition partners.
That way, by demonstrating the teamwork, we attact more people who are not like us.
Under the PPR Electoral College as we understand the math, we’ll need to attract exactly 33.33% (plus one vote) for each of the two seats under the US Contstitution. We can only do this in the PPR Elector College where Electors vote first for President and then for VP, and under PPR it’s always 33.33% (plus one vote), using the ranked choice voting.
BTW it’s also like limited voting since everyone’s vote helps elect only one of the two names, but 66.66% (plus two votes) are guaranteed to count.
Then we use that as a springboard in the message to US voters to again attract 33.33%, plus enough beyond 33.33%, enough votes to win.
Against two other factions, likely the Ds and Rs, we only know that we need slightly more than 33.33% to win in the two-party system.
With the LP’s one-party system AppV in place for 2020, the message will likely be, “We’re better than everyone so switch to us when you see our greatness”, but with PPR we can say “We invite all to participate and the best team players get rewarded with votes”, and under RCV there are no limits to the multiples of alternatives of names and decision items that get prioritized starting with #1.
Go Ogle for US Vice President
http://usparliament.org/google2020.php
The brief is good, but I think saying that the Libertarian Party would have to spend $100,000 to do a ballot access drive to get 10,000 valid signatures is an exaggeration.
I could see a new party with no infrastructure (like Americans Elect), spending that much, particularly if they started late (as in closer to the deadline), but I doubt an established minor party like the Libertarian Party or Green Party having to spend that much.