On Friday, October 14, the Wyoming Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee defeated 23LSO-0192, a proposal for a top-four system, in which parties would no longer have nominees, except for presidential electors.
The Wyoming legislature is not in session, but many committees are holding interim hearings. If the top-four measure had received support from the committee, then the committee would have become the sponsor of the bill in the 2023 session.
NOOOO caucuses, primaries and conventions for nominations
Voter pets / filing fees
PR
APPV
TOTSOP
Yes caucuses. And make the general election caucus style as well.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4240006
Majoritarianism and Minoritarianism in the Law of Democracy
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Via Hasen ELB
Mention of Condorcet math
BUT brain dead about Democracy = majority rule [ONLY}
and ANTI-Democracy minority rule — ie killers / enslavers monarchs / oligarchs for 6,000 plus years.
They didn’t kill or enslave nearly as many as “democracy” in a much shorter time frame, as bad as they were. See HHH “Democracy: the God that failed” for details.
Per Eu v San Francisco, political parties are private associations entitled to organize in their own preferred way. This would imply that they are entitled to make nominations, and withhold their party label from any candidate that they would prefer not to nominate.
Now, whether or not a party is entitled to place their nominated candidates on any primary or general election ballot is a separate issue. But, states should not place undue or excessive restrictions on which candidates carrying their label are placed on the ballot of any qualified parties.
@WZ, What if candidates filed as individuals, but then political parties with the consent of the candidate could have the party label placed next to their name.
Parties could be recognized based on a membership list filed with the SOS in electronic form (no scrawly signatures of random strangers on paper sheets with catsup stains). In Australia between 1500 and 1650 signatures are submitted. After an initial screening to verify that the voters are enrolled, a random sample of the members is contacted to verify membership. If 1500 are submitted the sample is larger since any miss could disqualify the party. With 1650 the sample is small since you only have to show that 90% are valid.
The Australian requirement translates to about 1/20000, so in Wyoming around 30.