On August 19, U.S. District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen, an Obama appointee, refused to put the Montana Green Party back on the ballot. Davis v Stapleton, 6:20cv-62. The Green Party nominees who filed this lawsuit then filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Here is the 21-page order, which says on page 17-18 that if the Green Party were put back on the ballot, “the Democratic Party and its voters may see votes for Democratic candidates siphoned by seemingly progressive candidates who would not be on the ballot but for the efforts of the Montana GOP.”
Naked partisan bias right there. That judge should be disbarred.
On the contrary – the Montana Green Party “did not make an organized attempt to gain ballot access for
the 2020 general election (p. 6).” If they don’t want to participate, no one else has the right to make them.
9th mostly democrats too iirc
Getting close to DEADLINES for printing ballots in ALL States/DC ???
esp with 45 days overseas trooper ballots ???
How many pending SCOTUS 2020 election crisis cases ???
Which gerrymander gang is the DEVIL evil best/worse in playing the super-olde divide and conquer game ???
— now a mere 6,000 plus years olde.
Brian, they do want to participate. Over 800 Montana voters chose a Green Party primary ballot, and several candidates were nominated. Some of those candidates were the plaintiffs in this lawsuit.
Getting EQUAL ballot access for INDIVIDUAL candidates —
Now one more life or death power struggle –
akin to events of 19 Apr 1775 in Lexington and Concord Mass.
— since the 2 current top gerrymander gangs are robot stooges for monarch prez tyrants
– esp since 1932 and super-esp since 1992 [Clinton].
It is the voters who vote in a primary who constitute the Montana Green Party.
It is not the would-be capos who post on Facebook.
The plaintiffs did not file until the day before the election which had been conducted by mail. Montana does not have party registration, and voters choose a party anonymously. They were sent a ballot for each party as well as a non-partisan ballot. They vote one ballot, and discard the others.
We don’t know whether some voters voted a Green ballot, and then signed a withdrawal form. We don’t know even know if this was true for the individual plaintiffs.
the only power montana greens have now is not to vote or to vote for any third party candidates that are available. the siphoning votes argument is dispicable when coming from a legal process as it is a politica l argument. did Donald trump not siphon votes off the democrats in pennsylvania in 2016. Maybe the Democrats should change there name
First-past-the-post voting is too important to allow people more than two choices.
Even having any second party siphons off some votes from the top party gang –
See ONE party regimes —
the 1917-1991 olde Russia/USSR regimes
the 1933-1945 nazi regime
ETC.
TOTAL R-O-T in having appointed partisan HACK judges or what ???
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ALL NON-partisan elected judges using AppV – pending Condorcet.
Montana’s population is just over one million, of whom some 840,000 are over 18 years of age. 0.1 percent of their support does not make a serious political movement, especially if it’s being used by people who are colluding with other parties.
Hi cyberpig!
The federal case has been appealed (interlocutary, since the judge has not made a ruling, only denied a TRO) to the 9th Circuit. The district court judge refused to issue an emergency stay, so presumably the SOS can not certify the Green nominees.