Reason writer Eric Boehm has this truly comprehensive article about Georgia ballot access rules for minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House.
Reason writer Eric Boehm has this truly comprehensive article about Georgia ballot access rules for minor party and independent candidates for U.S. House.
Congress should mandate Top 2 congressional elections. Candidates should have to file a petition with 10 notarized signatures and a handling fee of $15. If more than 12 candidates file, then there would be a endorsement period where voters could go to the county seat and support a candidate. The Top 12 would appear on the ballot. The election would be on the 1st Saturday after the first Monday in November. If a run off was needed it would be held one week later just like in Remulac (that’s in France).
Some folks can NOT detect gerrymander math —
1/2 or less votes x 1/2 rigged packed/cracked gerrymander areas
= 1/4 or less CONTROL = OLIGARCHY — ALWAYS WITH LAWLESS TYRANT MONARCH BOSSES.
3 rots in USA regime
in ALL 50 State regimes – ALL 99 state houses / many local regimes
more/more lawless tyrant execs/judics filling the voids.
brain dead media.
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ONE ELECTION DAY
ONE PERSON equal NOM PETS / FILING FEES
PR
APPV
TOTSOP
Disagree totally on that one, Jim. Top-two is a duopoly move to squeeze third parties. (Now, if you meant top-12 throughout, and the top-2 in the first usage was a typo? Different story. THAT I could support. Would actually neuter duopoly party hierarchies (especially on the Dem side) trying to screen out “unacceptable” candidates.
Just use ranked choice voting.
RCV/IRV FATAL Defects Apr 2018
RCV/IRV ignores most of the data in a Place Votes Table.
The *Middle* is divided – as usual.
34 A-M-Z
33 Z-M-A
16 M-A-Z
16 M-Z-A
99
With RCV/IRV, M loses. A beats Z 50-49.
A = Stalin, M = Washington, Z = Hitler
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Place Votes Table
— 1 — 2 — 3 — T
A 34 – 16 – 49 – 99
Z 33 – 16 – 50 – 99
M 32 – 67 – 0 – 99
T 99 – 99 – 99
i.e. RCV/IRV will cause even more extremist winners due to rigged majority *mandate* stuff.
M has a mere 99 of 99 votes in 1st and 2nd place.
Also — symmetry — Z has 50 in last place — should lose. M then beats A 65-34.
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Head to Head (Condorcet) Math – from 1780s — repeat 1780s.
M beats A 65-34
M beats Z 66-33
Condorcet is obviously correct by the math of having a 3rd choice beat each of 2 existing choices head to head.
A > B
C comes along.
IF C > A and C > B, THEN C should be the winner.
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Copy and paste to inform the math moron media.
According to President Trump, ranked-choice voting is crap voting and makes fraud easier.
TRUMP — ONE MORE ELECTION MATH MORON.
DID HE PASS SIMPLE MATH ??? — 51 IS MORE THAN 49.
President Trump is Right
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER PURGE LIST! WHY IS THERE BROWN STUFF DOWN MY LEG
I agree with President Trump!
I do not like the Top 4 or 5 Primary aspect of the new Alaska election system, but Ranked Choice Voting is a good thing because it gives minor party and independent candidates more of a chance, as it alleviates some of the fear of the “wasted vote” syndrome.
My guess is that some of Donald Trump’s handlers told him to trash Ranked Choice Voting because they don’t like the idea of minor party or independent candidates having a better chance at winning.
I also agree with President Trump. I have never known him to be wrong. Trump said it, I believe it, that settles it.
@SG,
In the recent Alaska special election there were 48 candidates. 19 received fewer than 100 votes. Their collective vote total of 1015 would have placed 15th. Limiting the Open Primary to 12 candidates would not materially effect voter choice consistent with the state purpose of the election.
You may not have noticed that the runoff would have been one week after the special election and would not be held if a candidate secured a majority.
Rather than two advancing to a runoff, I would use a N/(N+1) threshold where N is the smallest number of candidates whose collective vote share is greater than N/(N+1). It would be Top 2 if the top 2 candidates received 2/3 of the vote. It would Top 5 if the top 5 candidates received 5/6 of the vote.
Mac got it right.