Use this link to see the California Assembly Elections Committee analysis of SB 505, the bill on how candidates get on a presidential primary ballot. The bill has a hearing in the Assembly Elections Committee on June 19, Wednesday.
The Peace & Freedom Party still opposes the bill, even though it was amended last month to make it easier for presidential candidates to get on a presidential primary ballot. The Green Party supports the bill. The Peace & Freedom Party’s main complaint is that the bill leaves ambiguous whether a presidential candidate can qualify to be on the presidential primary ballot of two different parties. PFP feels the bill should explicitly allow candidates to be on the presidential primary ballots of more than one party.
One more reason to ABOLISH the late DARK AGE elitist EC.
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Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the USA [including colonies].
NON-partisan AppV exec/judic – pending Condorcet.
It is interesting that the Weld campaign was opposed to the previous version. My interpretation of the latest version was that the Democrats were trying to make sure that Weld was on the primary ballot. Under the previous version he would have had to had recognition by the California Republican party which they might not have granted.
California law does not recognize the possibility of presidential fusion, since electors are independently nominated. It would be possible if presidential candidates filed as individuals, with the endorsement of the parties. If Jill Stein wished to be supported by the Greens and P&F, she would presumably negotiate with two parties as to who the electors were (see 1860).
The 1972 constitutional provision is no longer necessary, and has been preserved for reasons that have nothing to do with its enactment.
California does recognize presidential fusion. In 2016 Donald Trump was on the November ballot as “Republican, American Independent”.
@RW,
The two parties had different slates of electors, with no way to indicate which a voter supported. SOS Padilla required inclusion of confusing instructions, while others were omitted.
California has never completed cleaning up their election code since individual elector candidates were removed from the ballot.