Several interesting Arizona bills concerning elections have been introduced.
HB 2314, by Representative John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), would allow election officials to omit the names of presidential elector candidates from general election ballots. Arizona is the most populous state that still prints the names of presidential elector candidates on ballots.
SB 1203, by four Democratic legislators, would require the presidential nominees of political parties to submit their income tax returns for the last five years, or forfeit ballot access. The bill does not include independent presidential candidates. A somewhat similar California law was declared unconstitutional last year in U.S. District Court.
HB 2181, also by Rep. Kavanagh, would move the deadline for filing as a write-in candidate from 40 days before the election, to 76 days before. It would also require write-in candidates to have lived in the jurisdiction for at least 120 days before filing. As applied to congress, this would be unconstitutional.
HB 2314 is going in the wrong direction. We should be voting for the Presidential Electors directly and not for the party nominees by proxy. Maine and NH style single PE districts are the solution to this – which also makes vote fraud much more difficult. Incidents such as happened in Detroit and Philadelphia would only be able to affect a maximum of three electoral votes, not the entire state slate.
Arizona is a good candidate for the Maine method of selecting electors. Districts would recognize the rural-urban split in the state and minimize the effect of any fraud in any one place, and ranked choice voting would minimize the spoiler effect of any third party candidates.
NONPARTISAN Prez/VP of ALL of USA [and all other NONPARTISAN elected execs and ALL judics]
— via Appv- pending Condorcet.
WZ —
More EC gerrymander districts will only make Prez EC elections even more rigged —
as in USA H Rep gerrymander / minority rule elections since 1964.
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Condorcet = RCV done right.