On February 5, the Virginia House Election Administration Subcommittee tabled HB 2278. It would have provided that voter registration forms ask applicants if they wish to register into any particular party. The bill was sponsored by five Republican Delegates. Virginia has a Democratic majority in each house of its legislature.
The bill was flawed, because it did not deal with whether voters could register into an unqualified party. Virginia’s definition of a party is so strict that only the Democratic and Republican Parties have met that definition, in the period since 1997. Virginia is one of only three states that has not had any ballot-qualified third parties in the 21st century. The others are New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Also Georgia has only had a ballot-qualified minor party that was ballot-qualified for statewide office, not all partisan office.
If the bill had passed, independents would still have been allowed to vote in any party’s primary, but registered Democrats could not vote in the Republican primary, and vice versa.
ANY minor party lawyers in such States able to detect EQUAL in 14-1 AMDT ???
Which State has highest odds of starting Civil WAR II
— RED commies vs blue/black fascists ???
2020 Prez
BIDEN PCT 0-ST
66.09% VT
65.60% MA
65.36% MD
63.73% HI
63.50% CA
60.86% NY
59.39% RI
59.24% CT
58.74% DE
57.97% WA
57.54% IL
57.33% NJ
56.45% OR
55.40% CO
54.29% NM
54.11% VA
53.09% ME
52.71% NH
52.40% MN
50.62% MI
50.06% NV
50.01% PA
49.50% GA
49.45% WI
49.36% AZ Biden win
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48.59% NC Trump win
47.86% FL
46.48% TX
45.24% OH
44.89% IA
43.43% SC
42.77% AK
41.56% KS
41.41% MO
41.06% MS
40.96% IN
40.55% MT
39.85% LA
39.17% NE
37.65% UT
37.45% TN
36.57% AL
36.15% KY
35.61% SD
34.78% AR
33.07% ID
32.29% OK
31.76% ND
29.70% WV
26.55% WY
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LAST hope – 18 Voter state con am pet States
Con am pet states? States are pets now? Do you eat those too?
Alabama has had no third party since 2002 except for a few minor local races and third party presidential candidates who qualified statewide as independents. There was also Americans Elect, which had zero candidates.
If it had allowed voters to choose a minor party, would it help such parties gain ballot access?