Fairvote has published this essay by Julie Hochsztein, advocating that the U.S. Supreme Court hear De La Fuente v Padilla, the case over California’s independent presidential petition requirement. It requires almost 200,000 signatures, to be collected in 105 days. No one has complied with the law since 1992.
EQUAL ballot access test(s) for ALL INDIVIDUAL candidates.
Too many MORON lawyers to court since 1968 Williams v Rhodes.
For NON-Morons –
When the SCOTUS MORONS screw up a subject in its FIRST case on the subject —
it routinely takes decades to undo the damage.
Mere 51 years since the Williams screwed up op.
a good, solid essay.
No tests. No quotas. No censorship. Abolish all ballot access laws and restore control of the ballot to each individual voter.
It only requires 60 signatures and as filing fee to qualify for governor in California.
The barrier to presidential ballot access in California is because of the exclusionary, or segregated, partisan primary, which requires more than a dozen ballot styles.
California should extend Top 2 to the election of presidential electors, elected by congressional district, with two elected by pairs of SBOE districts.
Abolish the ANTI-Democracy minority rule Electoral College.
Uniform definition of Elector-Voter in ALL of the USA — USA citizen, 18 plus yrs olde.
ONE Election Day
EQUAL nom pets
PR – EQUAL votes to elect — Total Votes/Total members – Surplus votes down, Lowest loser votes up.
AppV
TOTSOP
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PR and AppV – pending Condorcet