Michael Tomasco has this op-ed in favor of fusion. It is published in several newspapers in New Jersey, including The Daily Record of Morris County.
A lawsuit is pending in New Jersey state courts, arguing that the ban on fusion violates the New Jersey Constitution. The plaintiff includes the Moderate Party, and Tomasco supports that party.
Always interesting to hear about people trying to make this more well known. No way we’ll get a second New York, but this is a start, at least.
Can Eu v San Francisco be applied in fusion cases? If political parties are private associations per Eu v San Fran, shouldn’t they be able to nominate whomever they please, even if it is the nominee of another party?
Eu –
PUBLIC in nominations for PUBLIC offices.
PRIVATE for internal clubby stuff.
Prior to the “reforms” of the so-called “Progressive Era”, all nominations and parties were considered private. Once the state confiscated the ballot, it controlled nominations and parties. Prior to that, the voters, and the parties, created there own ballots and brought them to the ballot box.
Modern technology now makes it possible for voters to create there own ballots, and print them out from there computers themselves. The state should only define the format of the ballot, and print only those names on the ballot that qualify by 1) presenting a reasonable number of signatures, 2) being nominated by whatever means by qualifying parties, and 3) filing a reasonable filing fee. Spaces should be left on the ballot for write-ins, and voters should be able to print the names of their preferred write-in candidates on their own ballots before they print them out, and deliver to the polling place.
@WZ,
Will election clerks be able to examine this sheet of paper to verify that it complies with legal standards? Why not go back to viva voce elections? The voter could prepare written notes.
The best system is no ballots at all.
The concern with write in ballots is handwriting. The concern with print at home ballots is ballot stuffing. Fine. I have a better solution: the caucus voting system.
You show up in the evening after a hard day’s work on the farm or in the factory while your wife washes the dishes, mops the floors, does laundry, and puts the kids to bed, and spend a few hours standing in a corner of a big room in front of all your neighbors together with the supporters of your party while some of your party’s supporters make speeches to convince undecided and persuadable voters to come over to your corner. All voting is strictly by party; the party committee meets in a back room filled with thick cigar smoke to pick the candidates. To qualify a party you must get above a certain threshold of voters in above a certain threshold of precincts to stand in their corner on election day.
You may have to spend a few hours standing in a corner of a room together with your neighbors who support your party, but you won’t have to stand in line to vote. Can’t face your neighbors and let them know which party you support? Stay home, you do not deserve to vote.
It should go without saying that only White, property owning men who are members of a Christian church should be allowed to vote. There should be a literacy test, a poll tax, and the voting age should be raised to 30. There should also be a requirement that men have a wife and at least two children to be allowed to vote, and that their father’s father should have also been a registered voter in the same county. This would fix the vast majority of political problems in this country.
A fundamental tenant of PLAS is a fusion ticket.
NJ is a well known progressive state.
PLAS is a strategy for third parties to win elections.
In IPR the top story is New Mexico LP has disaffiliated from the LNC.
So the LP no longer has 50 state ballot access.
That is necessary to win elections.
On IPRX I was just denied a comment on the Open Thread.
Somebody or something is preventing third parties from winning elections.
Libertarians lose 50 state ballot access at the conclusion of every presidential election, if they have it for that election. If I am not mistaken they had it in 1980, 1992, 1996, 2016, and 2020. All of those times in at least some states this was only for the presidential ticket nominated by the Libertarian National Convention which carried the Libertarian label only in some states and not others. In all of those years there were states where it was a close call and they could have easily not had any claim to 50 state ballot access. Libertarians have to seek ballot access every two years in some states, every four years in others, and rarely if ever again in some. In some states there is partial ballot access for some offices but not others. Again if memory serves Libertarians have never had 50 state ballot access in a non-presidential election.
The monthly issue of ballot access news, which you can subscribe to by email or snail mail, and which is also posted one month late on this website, shows how many states each party is qualified for the ballot for right now. The July issue which is the last one posted here has the following numbers of states (max 51, as DC is a state for this purpose):
Libertarian – 37
Green – 17
Constitution – 13
Socialist Workers – 4
Some deadlines were/are after that so some of those numbers may have gone up (or down, such as from state parties disaffiliating, new state laws or court rulings, etc). Some state parties are assured or virtually assured to be disqualified again after November’s election and will need to be qualified again in 2024. Others are virtually certain to retain access and some are up in the air and will depend on as yet unpredictable, results in November. But it is an absolute certainty that Libertarians and every other third party will have to qualify additional states to have any chance at “50 state ballot access” in 2024, that this access will not extend to offices other than president in at least some states, and that there will be at least some states with close calls that would all have to break the right way to get that “50 state” claim. No third party is by any means close to being assured of 50 states in 2024.
I do not understand the acronyms you are using other than NJ and L
Sorry, NJ and LP
Welcome back Rabbi Milnestein.
I read the NJ constitution and didnt see any mention of fusion.
Robert, I don’t see your comment anywhere at IPR-X. Please post it again.
Whether fusion or plain old fashion fission, we need to go all in on building a lot more nuclear power plants in every state of the country. I mean big time level up like no country on earth has ever seen or even thought about before. There is no reason whatsoever that this country would ever not be an energy independent nation except for treason and treachery.
Mac is not wrong either.
NN,
On IPRX Open Thread the last comment is “Test” by you.
So I commented three separate times something like “What are you testing for?”
Three times the same message ” Sorry, this comment could not be posted.”
Are you stupid?
Try it now.
Have you idiots heard of email, messenger, texting, or any other form of one on one communication?
Billy,
For me, communicating on BAN with NN lets a lot of other people know that I am being screwed with.
The guy who formulated a strategy for third parties to win in Zionist Occupied Amerika is being screwed with.
Now you know.
NN, Ok. I commented on IPRX Open Thread.
I have something to report.
Last night I heard about 10 what I figured were gun shots not very far from my house.
It sounded like someone walking down the next street over firing into the air.
Getting to my street intersection started getting closer.
Then it stopped.
I waited for sirens and whirling lights. Nothing.
So about a half hour later I called the local fuzz dispatcher and made a report.
I gave my name and address.
Nothing.
I used to hear gunfire quite often when I lived across the highway from Camden, NJ.
Which is a silver dollar throw from Philly.
But since I moved I have not heard any gunfire.
Maybe Fourth of July. Hard to tell.
And I have target practiced in the National Forest in CA.
So I have a pretty good idea what gunfire sounds like.
This sounded like small caliber 22. Revolver.
Unless the shooter did not mind leaving spent shells as he walked. Or picked them up.
So either he was a fast reloader or had two.
This is my opinion and speculation.
The White Man is God, and Trump is our Savior, Amen.