California Presidential Elector from 2016 Files Amicus in U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elector Case

Vinz Koller, who was a California presidential elector in 2016, and who tried to vote for someone other than Hillary Clinton but was dissuaded by the threat of prison and a fine, has filed this amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Chiafalo v State of Washington. He presents arguments that presidential electors in his situation do have standing to challenge punishments for electors who vote unexpectedly. In the Chiafalo case, which is combined with the case from Colorado, the state of Colorado continues to argue that the electors who filed these cases lack standing.

Koller had filed his own federal lawsuit in 2016 to overcome the California law that imprisons and fines “disobedient” electors, but the U.S. District Court in his case said he lacked standing.


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California Presidential Elector from 2016 Files Amicus in U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elector Case — 5 Comments

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  2. The United USA has been bringing pure proportional representation since 1992 and in 1997 Sergey Brin, founder of google dot com joined the conversation, derived the name from my email address Joogle@cruzio.com after asking “What is a joogle”.

    As it turns out the data deleted by Brin in Usenet where 350 voters elected simultaneously elected Harry Browne at #1 and all the information deleted by Brin was correct.

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    Below is news about the campaign;

    James Ogle for US President or Vice President and Secretary; Why Ogle Was Not Elected Delegate

    After speaking on phone to Libertarian Party of California Honorable Chair Mimi Robson, I understand why names weren’t on the ballot including my own name.

    My name likely wasn’t on the ballot because of clerical error. The membership renewal payment was made on that Saturday but the data not transferred to Secretary even though our names were hand written by us on the Secretary’s pad in front of him and the convention.

    That was an error which couldn’t be addressed by me personally because I wasn’t present on that Monday, and so I couldn’t raise the objection.

    Our prayers go out to the LP Secretary Paul for his emergency trip to hospital on Monday and we hope he is doing better.

    I will look at those paper ballots and there may be enough evidence to show how other names fell through the cracks even though the paper ballots will have the names scratched off and the validity of the votes cannot be verified.

    Semi-proportional is better than one-party and two-party voting systems so the need for looking at those ballots isn’t very strong since the method itself wasn’t a single-winner election district.

    Another three names in question, I have spoken to them and understand the rules better, so under the rules of the game I agree their names (including Tulsi Gabbard’ s name who I had nominated) weren’t eligible.

    After I have researched from this end and have personally concluded and identified the voting system method as semi-proportional representation, I can conclude that the problem why names fall through the cracks in that election isn’t because of the paper ballots themselves but the method cited in the bylaws on how both qualification for the ballot and how the semi-proportional representation vote-count was conducted, from beginning to end.

    I already know that single-winner election districts bring a two-party system and that holders of single-winner seats like Chair of the Libertarian Party of California are among the staunchest protectors of single-winner election districts and defenders of voting system mathematics that bring a two-party system.

    The method used in electing delegates was not a one-party or two-party system so that election is not as important nor high priority for ending more destructive and unacceptable voting systems, methods that I know must be eliminated because America is a melting pot.

    The one-party system and the two-party system worldwide are unacceptable.

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