The Alaska Supreme Court will hear Kohlhaas v State on Tuesday, January 18. This is the challenge to the initiative passed in 2020 that eliminates party nominees yet which allows party labels on ballots. The only political party in the case is the Alaskan Independence Party. The initiative sends the top-four primary vote-getters to the general election ballot; no one else can be on the general election ballot. The initiative also provides for ranked choice voting in the general election, but not the primary election.
Although one of the issues in the case is whether the state constitution permits ranked-choice voting, the bigger issue in the case is freedom of association for political parties. News stories in the mainstream press tend to ignore the freedom of association part of the case. The Alaska Supreme Court in the past has ruled that the state constitution gives even more protection to political parties than the federal courts do.
INDIVIDUAL candidates are nominated/elected — NOT ***parties***.
NO write in >>> 14-2 penalty for specified offices
—- NOT yet properly enforced since 1868 — mere 153 years and counting.
Condorcet = RCV done right.
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NOOO extremist primaries with low low low turnouts.
PR
APPV
TOTSOP
Scott Kohlhaas has always been a Libertarian, why isn’t the LPAK involved?
The Alaska Libertarian Party couldn’t be persuaded to join the lawsuit. Apparently the fact that the initiative includes ranked choice voting for the general election is so appealing, the party felt that outweighed the disadvantages, which include making it harder for it to ever regain its qualified status (due to abolishing the 3% vote test), and the possibility that party members won’t be able to place in the top four, at least for offices like U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and Governor.
2 SPACES BETWEEN COLUMNS FOR SPREADSHEETS.
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2020 BIDEN MINORITY RULE ELECTION
AREA BV BV% ECV AECV BV/ECV ABV PTV
DC 317,323 92.15% 3 3 105,774 317,323 0.20
VT 242,820 66.09% 3 6 80,940 560,143 0.35
MA 2,382,202 65.60% 11 17 216,564 2,942,345 1.86
MD 1,985,023 65.36% 10 27 198,502 4,927,368 3.11
HI 366,130 63.73% 4 31 91,533 5,293,498 3.34
CA 11,110,250 63.48% 55 86 202,005 16,403,748 10.36
NY 5,230,985 60.86% 29 115 180,379 21,634,733 13.66
ME-1 266,376 60.11% 1 116 266,376 21,901,109 13.83
RI 307,486 59.39% 4 120 76,872 22,208,595 14.02
CT 1,080,831 59.26% 7 127 154,404 23,289,426 14.70
DE 296,268 58.74% 3 130 98,756 23,585,694 14.89
WA 2,369,612 57.97% 12 142 197,468 25,955,306 16.39
IL 3,471,915 57.54% 20 162 173,596 29,427,221 18.58
NJ 2,608,335 57.33% 14 176 186,310 32,035,556 20.23
OR 1,340,383 56.45% 7 183 191,483 33,375,939 21.07
CO 1,804,352 55.40% 9 192 200,484 35,180,291 22.21
NM 501,614 54.29% 5 197 100,323 35,681,905 22.53
VA 2,413,568 54.11% 13 210 185,659 38,095,473 24.05
ME 435,072 53.09% 2 212 217,536 38,530,545 24.33
NH 424,937 52.71% 4 216 106,234 38,955,482 24.60
MN 1,717,077 52.40% 10 226 171,708 40,672,559 25.68
NE-2 176,468 51.95% 1 227 176,468 40,849,027 25.79
MI 2,804,040 50.62% 16 243 175,253 43,653,067 27.56
NV 703,486 50.06% 6 249 117,248 44,356,553 28.01
PA 3,458,229 50.01% 20 269 172,911 47,814,782 30.19
GA 2,473,633 49.47%** 16 285 154,602 50,288,415 31.75
WI 1,630,866 49.45%** 10 295 163,087 51,919,281 32.78
AZ 1,672,143 49.36%** 11 306 152,013 53,591,424 33.84
DATA – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
BV BIDEN VOTES, BV% HIGH TO LOW, ECV ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, A ACCUMULATED, PTV PERCENT OF TOTAL VOTES- 158,383,403 , ** UNDER 50.00 PCT-GA-WI-AZ
270 OF 538 ECV NEEDED TO ELECT – WITHOUT OTHER 12 AMDT STUFF.
SAME FATAL ROT SINCE 1832.
HOW MUCH MORE GERRYMANDER STUFF BEFORE 2024 USA PREZ ELECTION ???
note – prior table – math with ME and later is a bit high — double counting of ME-1 in ME.