On February 7, the West Virginia House Government Organization Committee passed HB 2692. It says that an independent candidate, and the nominee of an unqualified party, must file a declaration of candidacy in January, on the same date that candidates running in the May primary must file.
It is surprising that the committee passed the bill, because in 2016, after the West Virginia Supreme Court construed West Virginia election law to require independent candidates to file a declaration of candidacy in January, a U.S. District Court ruled that the law was unconstitutional. Daly v Tennant, southern district, 3:16-8981. The plaintiffs in that case were a Socialist Equality Party nominee for the legislature, and Darrell Castle, the Constitution Party’s presidential nominee. Thanks to Jeff Becker for the news about HB 2692.
Since when do ANY gerrymander hacks pay any attention to court ops ???
— since the SCOTUS morons let such hacks enact all sorts of UN-constitutional stuff with NO punishment in a USA jail or NO mere $$$ damages [to bankrupt such hacks] in civil cases.
Hacks = USA/States/Locals.
Each Elector College voting cycle has potential for three camps with 33.33% chance per cycle.
Since single winner districts bring a two-party system, a third party can be created in the same sense that two-winner districts, bring the three-party system.
Under PPR yes, a three-party system.
Maybe to be country-wide all elections would be the same for a whole country.
USA has nearly all single winner districts.
Under PPR, all two-member districts can bring a three-party system. For an entire country to be three-party maybe the whole country would have to be mostly two-winner districts?
All three-member districts can bring a four-party system, etc.
A 538-member Electoral College could bring a 539-party system.