The District of Columbia presidential primary, and primary for other partisan office, is June 2. Here is the list of candidates. The list first has Democrats, then Republicans, then the Green Party, then the Libertarian Party.
No Republican filed for Delegate to the U.S. House. Assuming the Republican Party doesn’t fill that vacancy later, it will be easier for the two minor parties to poll the needed 7,500 votes so as to retain party qualification.
In the Republican presidential primary, only President Donald Trump and Rocky De La Fuente filed. They each needed 285 signatures of registered Republicans.
Democratic presidential primary candidates will be Donna Jean Alston, Joe Biden, William Feegbeh, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Mark Stewart, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang.
No one filed in either the Green presidential primary, nor the Libertarian presidential primary. The Libertarian Party national convention is in May, so it would have made little sense for any Libertarian to file for a June D.C. primary.
How soon before TYRANT Trump is the LAST Elephant allegedly residing in Devil City ???
Alston, Stewart, Steyer, Warren, and Yang never filed their petitions.
The method used in bylaws for electing delegates at last month’s California State L.P. convention to the L.P. national convention in Austin appeared to be “semi-proportional representation”.
Semi-proportional representation is a form of limited voting using “Xs”, when fewer votes are cast by each voter, fewer than seats available.
The advantage of pure proportional representation over simi-proportional representation, is that pure proportional representation is more exact (within .0001ths), brings fewer ties, it’s one-man-one-vote and one vote per paper ballot.
To get pure proportional representation we must use numerals on paper and if the rankings do not begin with the number one, with consecutively ranked numerals thereafter, then the paper ballot is marked “spoiled”.
Of course we can ask each voter to make corrections should the ballot be marked spoiled.
The United Coalition USA has been using pure proportional representation since 1992 and in 1997 Google tried to copy the program but they got it wrong. Google used “Click the go” (and click on ads) but clicks and plurality votes aren’t pure proportional representation because a click isn’t a numeral.
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@James: If you want to be able to allow people who spoil their ballots to correct those ballots, then you can’t have a secret ballot. (After all, someone else has to know who submitted the ballot if they want to allow the person to correct it.) Maybe a secret ballot is not a priority for you, but to many other people it would be a problem not to have a secret ballot.
(And just to be clear, I am talking about situations where the voter didn’t realize that they spoiled their own ballot. If a voter spoils their ballot but notices that before they put their own ballot into the ballot box, it’s not a problem for secrecy if the spoiled ballot is destroyed and the voter submits a correct one.)
After thinking about it some more, I realized that if it is possible to make a ranked-choice ballot machine-readable, then the machine could determine whether the ballot was spoiled and return it to the voter for correction without another person having to review it. That would protect the right to a secret ballot.