On May 5, the Washington, D.C., city council passed B23-0751. It makes many changes to laws of all kinds, relating to the health crisis. Section 23 of the bill lowers the number of signatures needed for a petition to place a candidate for Delegate to the U.S. House, or city-council-at-large, on the November ballot, from 3,000 signatures to 250 signatures.
The bill lowers the general election petition for city council from a ward from 500 signatures to 150 signatures.
The bill also says blank candidate petitions, and initiative petitions, can now be sent to potential signers electronically. Potential signers must then print the blank petition on their home printer. They may sign the printed paper, and e-mail the signature with a scan back to the campaign office that is collecting the signatures. Or, of course, they can also postally mail the sheet back. The bill also eliminates the requirement that petitions be on legal size paper. They can now be on standard 8.5 inch by eleven inch paper.
Oddly, the bill does not seem to lower the number of signatures for independent presidential candidates, or the presidential nominees of unqualified parties.
Closer to ONE person pets — regardless of all morons/trolls.
The bill pertains to all elected office positions that are local in DC, held by DC residents, who are conducting local campaigns. Those folks are who councilmembers have interactions with — not presidential candidates, and certainly not those outside the recognized political parties. So, they didn’t feel it made the cut as something warranting discussion to reach consensus among 13 members on an emergency basis. The bill also doesn’t reduce the number of signatures for ballot initiatives — which are proposals that most councilmembers likely feel they usually are best equipped to consider themselves.
https://dccouncil.us/councilmembers/
UNLUCKY 13 DC COUNCIL —
5 AT LARGE
8 GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS/WARDS
Gerrymandering is a disservice to the public that happens all over the country. The eight DC wards are not gerrymandered. For the most part, they’re quite contiguous and relatively compact. Even Ward 6, which is unique as it is the only ward that has parts in all four of DC quadrants, is still pretty compact. https://ggwash.org/images/posts/201103-redistgame.jpg
DJ –
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 gerrymander areas [even if exact squares] =
1/4 or less CONTROL.
Near 100 pct ignorance of gerrymander math — since 1200s — formation of gerrymander English house of Commons.
Much much much worse extremist primary math.
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That map does not look gerrymandered to me.
Due to the 5 at large [which deny 49.99 pct minorities ANY *REAL* representation-]
the districts minority rule control math is
1/2 or less x 7/8 = 7/16 = 43.75 pct.
Scale of the RED communist Donkeys in DC — purist, pure, slight impure, PURGE ???
When was last Elephant on the DC city council ??? 1932 ???
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PR — might elect 1 or 2 Elephants ???
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DemoRep are you a District Voter. If your not stop your colonialist imperialism against the people of the District and its form of self-government. Your cold war era red-baiting is outdated and no longer relevant. Younger working people are no longer scared of socialism and People’s power. Democrats and Statehood Greens rightfully represent the range of opinion of most people in the District. The Republican party is about as welcome in DC as the KKK. Most people don’t see much of a difference between the two anyway, especially with Trump. This has nothing to do with gerrymander or whatever math games you want to play. Carve the districts any way you want and the result would still be the same.
Super-easy to be a RED communist looter/killer/enslaver with the income and assets of OTHER folks —
1848 Marx
1917 Lenin
1938 Stalin
1949 Mao
1959 Castro
etc.
2020 Biden/Sanders/AOC with H. Clinton lurking under her cover rock.
ANY non-RED Donkey commies in Devil City ???
— esp in the DC govt and the gerrymander USA Congress ???
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You’re babbling nonsense. Devil city? Biden and Clinton are communists? Come on.