In 2020, only seven states won’t have government-funded presidential primaries, the fewest ever. States that did not have a presidential primary in 2016, but which will in 2020, are Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, and Utah. This assumes that one of the Maine bills for a presidential primary passes.
States de facto DEAD
— due to USA Prez monarchs since 1929-1933
— esp since SCOTUS HACKS in 1936
— due to being appointed by Prez monarchs and confirmed by HACK USA Senators in States.
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PR and AppV
The national Libertarian chair announced that he advocates to block people when they post about our “Opposite gender ahead of our own with consecutively ranked alternative genders thereafter” in facebook.
Now my name is blocked in the CA LP facebook page so I can’t respond to the favorable comments about Range Voting there by Hon Gail Lightfoot.
Range voting allows arbitrary numerals, fractions and possibly other forms of enumeration and that brings a mess to counting votes.
Let’s be clear, only consecutively ranked numerals have the predictability and smoothness of a good vote count, and that multiple winner districts are also required.
Furthermore, now CA LP members are citing information which depicts pure proportional representation below many other voting systems in legitimacy, but those they cite bring one-party systems including Approval Voting (AppV), Range Voting and others, and the critics use the ranked choice voting (RCV) in single-winner districts as an example of the failure of all RCV, statements which appear to include multiple-winner districts under RCV.
Let’s be clear, the only way to bring pure proportional representation (PPR) is by RCV in multiple winner districts. Period.
The problem with the winner-takes-all of approval voting (AppV) is not just because it’s a one-party system in single-winner districts but also Xs can bring too many ties while enumeration under RCV in multiple winner districts, break unlimited numbers of ties so they are so rare we like ties and both win.
But that is extremely rare and not considered a one-party system like the Libertarian Party uses in all their single-winner district elections.
Our team needs to do a better job.
With Range Voting, every numeral must be scanned and in districts with a very high cap of seats, scanning scores of unpredictable numbers (and fractions, decimals, square roots?) that Range Voting might allow bring cumbersome vote counting.
With ranked choice voting in multiple winner districts, the scanning is much quicker because only the next consecutively ranked numerals beginning with #1 is correct and the search for the next elected name is methodical and each ballot brings increments of one whole vote each.
Why can’t I use mixed decimal fractions for RCV. I rank two candidates 7 and 8, and then realize that I left out a candidate. It is logicaltorank the candidate 7.5, rather than discarding the ballot and starting over.
Or why couldn’t I give you a rank of a Googol?
RCV ballots can not be tabulated at a precinct level.
RCV ballots are counted by hand.
Robotic counting is seconday.
The numerals written as the vote must be whole numbers beginning with number 1 and no exceptions.
This insures smooth transfer between the rankings and calibrations must go up and down by using whole numbers and any variation of the enumeration.
Consecutively ranked whole numerals beginning with the number one is one rule that may never be broken so to attain pure proportional representation (PPR).
I believe there are computer programs for counting RCV ballots — San Fran, etc.