Iowa Bill to Tell Parties How to Run Their Presidential Caucuses

Iowa Representative Bobby Kauffman (R-Wilton) has introduced House Study Bill 245. Read it here. It provides that parties that hold caucuses cannot let anyone vote other than a person who physically attends the caucus. It also provides that no one may vote in a caucus who has not been registered with that party for at least 70 days prior to the caucus. The bill has a hearing in a subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee on Wednesday, April 12. Kauffman is the son of the state chair of the Iowa Republican Party.

Parties in Iowa pay for their own caucuses, and do all the work of finding locations to hold them. Democrats have been planning to use a privately-administered system to allow persons to vote by mail in caucuses. Also traditionally Democratic rules permit anyone to join the party on caucus day. This bill appears to violate the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on freedom of association for political parties. Thanks to David Sturrock for this news.


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Iowa Bill to Tell Parties How to Run Their Presidential Caucuses — 48 Comments

  1. If a party pays for their own caucuses, they should be able to run them any way that they please, including accepting mail in and proxy votes, if that’s what they want to do.

  2. IMO, maybe it would be better if parties opt out of state paid and regulated primaries, and just run their own wide-open caucuses any way that they please. It would solve a lot of problems by just letting the parties decide for themselves such issues as 1. whether or not to let independents and other party members vote in their caucuses, 2. letting each party determine its own caucus days, and 3. whether or not to accept, mail-in, on-line or proxy voting.

    There is no need for one-size-fits-all primary rules.

  3. The only legitimate job of a president should be commander in chief. He should be picked by the military. The only job of parties should be to compete in an election when men stand up and are counted. The winning party picks precinct neighborhood peace officers. The written law should be a good deal shorter than your constitution is now. There’s no need for losing parties to pick peace officers, thus no need for primaries at all.

    I like the bill feature that only those men who attend physically should vote, and that the vote should be held in the manner of an Iowa caucus or New England town meeting. However, that vote should be the general election, which should be the only election, held once per year.

  4. If losing parties want to pick peace officers, that’s silly. But it’s their business, not anyone else’s. How the winning party picks peace officers should likewise be it’s own business.

  5. PUBLIC CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICES AT PUBLIC GENL ELECTIONS

    HOW CANDIDATES NAMES GET ON THE GE BALLOTS IS PUBLIC BIZ.
    —-
    NOOO CAUCUSES/ PRIMARIES / CONVENTIONS FOR BALLOT ACCESS.

    EQUAL NOM PET/FILING FEES FOR BALLOT ACCESS.- ONE ELECTION DAY.

  6. 1989 EU CASE IN SCOTUS –

    PARTY PUBLIC NOMINATION STUFF

    V PARTY PRIVATE INTERNAL CLUBBY STUFF.

  7. Az, just how STUPID are you?

    NO00000 candidates.

    Winning party picks winning peace officers.

    SIMPLE rules for election. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED. Largest number of men standing SIMPLY is the WINNER party.

    SIMPLE written law shorter than your present constitution.

    WINNER PARTY PICKS PEACE OFFICERS.

    PEACE officers act as responding officers in the field. They SIMPLY serve as judge, jury, and executioner. Offending corpses are carted away by the carting company and burned with the rest of the trash to help keep the precinct energy independent.

    KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID

    XOXOXO

  8. William Clinton is not a good bill. He is a very very bad Bill and he needs to be PUNISHED. I nominate Monica. Public elections, public nominations!!!

  9. There should be no GE ballots. Having a company like Generals Electric, Dominionation, or indeed any company, or proprietary voting, secret ballots, going postal voting, electronic voting, or paper ballots, and especially multiprecinct elections introduce FRAUD AND UNACCEPTABLE UNACCOUNTABILITY.

    ALL elections should be by COUNTING THE MEN who are PHYSICALLY STANDING AND REMAIN STANDING FOR HOURS in order to pick the WINNER party which selects the precinct peace officers.

  10. Candidates: NOOOO

    PUBLIC OFFICE: Yes, but elite White men in good physical, mental, and financial shape only, and they must be God fearing Christian gun owbers, etc.

    PUBLIC ELECTIONS : ditto

  11. No nominations.

    No ballots. Especially GE or any other electronic or electric, but not even paper ballots. Standing count ONLY.

    NO candidates.

    NO multiple offices.

    NO separation of powers, except between military and peace officers. MOST powers of government returned to the people.

    ONE vote per election. ONE election per year. NO primaries, caucuses or conventions. General election only IN THE VOTING STYLE of a convention or caucus.

    Voting access by having a party representative fly the party’s banner on his precinct in between elections. HE Must Show Up At Election Hall On Election Night And Marshal His Party’s Forces. Accept NO substitute.

  12. I don’t understand why the United States Supreme Court would have been judging European Union cases in 1989. Was there even a European Union that far back? I’ll have to look that up I suppose.

  13. OK I JUST LOOKED IT UP AND I WAS RIGHT!!! EUROPEAN UNION ABOMINATION STARTED IN 1993!!! AZ IZ A LIER LIKE BILL CLINTON!!!

  14. No independents. Or all people independent until they choose which party to stand with on election night and be publicly identified with for the following year.

    Parties can have names, symbols, salutes, and or flags, so long as they can be distinguished from each other.

    No online or mail in voting ever. Voting should be a physical act of standing, not a written instrument. Most law should be decided on a case by case basis by responding peace officers. Written law should be one page and easily memorable.

  15. Only one uniform annual precinct voting evening in each precinct. It could be the same month and calendar day during uniform hours in the evening time. Or xth uniform day of week of x week of xth month every year, again with uniform hours, say 1800-2200. The exact hours may be slightly different, the proposal is still in early stages.

  16. How is racism and bs conspiracy theories gonna help ballot access law reform?

  17. Also he’s from the heartland of the homeland. You don’t get more American than that unless you are a WHITE southerner who is owed compensation for family property confiscated and destroyed without compensation in the 1860s.

  18. Fast Eddie Braunstain, you tell me, since that’s what you engage in, along with the rest of the loony luciferian left hand path left.

  19. Why does the left hate justice, truth, the American way, the GOP, and racial minorities, as well as patriots and nationalists of all races????

  20. Jesse Waters is straight up murdering the Biden Crime Family as we speak on Fux News!!!!

  21. They both have the left wing bent equivalent of peroni disease, and the truthiness of Buratino Pinocchio.

  22. N@s.ru, is that ns as in national socialist, or is your screen name not so clever Russian cussing/threat/bragging?

    https://context.reverso.net/translation/russian-english/%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%80%D1%83

    Either way, if there is a Nazi or fascist between the two of us, it is you. I’m a nationalist, conservative, traditionalist right wing patriot. Very much in the tradition of Solzhenitsyn.

    Taking your question straightforwardly rather than as the rather obvious and off its mark snark it clearly must be, I have no objection to how parties choose to advertise their membership. Commies,Nazis, and other left wing gangs in Germany a hundred years ago identified themselves in the manner you allude to. Subsequently, commies got embarrassed by their obvious resemblance to and previous alliances with naZis and fascists, and started spreading the big lie that Nazis and fascists were right wing rather than the rather obvious historical fact that they were left wing. That big lie has been very successful in adoption both by the heavily leftist professionals of history, miseducation, and media, and therefore by most of the public. It nevertheless remains a big stinking lie. The stench doesn’t diminish with time.

    It’s equally true that commie scum blamed many of their own crimes of magnitudes which overwhelm the human mind on Nazis in retrospect as it is that the left wing Nazis committed many such crimes themselves.

  23. N@s.ru, is that ns as in national socialist, or is your screen name not so clever Russian cussing/threat/bragging?

  24. Either way, if there is a Nazi or fascist between the two of us, it is you. I’m a nationalist, conservative, traditionalist right wing patriot. Very much in the tradition of Solzhenitsyn.

    Taking your question straightforwardly rather than as the rather obvious and off its mark snark it clearly must be, I have no objection to how parties choose to advertise their membership. Commies,Nazis, and other left wing gangs in Germany a hundred years ago identified themselves in the manner you allude to. Subsequently, commies got embarrassed by their obvious resemblance to and previous alliances with naZis and fascists, and started spreading the big lie that Nazis and fascists were right wing rather than the rather obvious historical fact that they were left wing. That big lie has been very successful in adoption both by the heavily leftist professionals of history, miseducation, and media, and therefore by most of the public. It nevertheless remains a big stinking lie. The stench doesn’t diminish with time.

    It’s equally true that commie scum blamed many of their own crimes of magnitudes which overwhelm the human mind on Nazis in retrospect as it is that the left wing Nazis committed many such crimes themselves.

  25. On pmsnbc the race lady and Karen McHaskel are not happy about the end of drag queen story hour, or something.

  26. March Font Eu was California Secretary of State. 489 US 214 (1989) was about California prescribing internal workings of political parties.

    The fundamental problem is that political parties want to act as organs of the state when it suits them and private bodies when that suits them.

  27. Only the winning party should be a major organ of the precinct, like it’s brain.

  28. Losing parties should be like appendix or maybe more like appendix entries.

  29. AZ we went over this before. Are you just a really sloooooow learner or what? Voting (not ballot since there should be no ballots) access should be by having a party precinct chair who flies the party standard (banner) in the precinct between elections and shows up to stand up and lead his men at the election hall on election night.

    Our Russian nationalist friend MAX told you this how many times now? And yet you still prattle on about nom pets, whatever that’s supposed to be? The only filing fees should be for voters, better known as poll taxes. Those would help pay for precinct peace officers, as would a gradual tax on the movement of people and goods between redlined neighborhoods, precincts, and military defense areas aka nations.

    The poll tax would be uniform on elite white males who would be the only people allowed to vote, should they choose to do so. A uniform head tax on everyone would help find the military. Taxes on movement of people and goods would be higher with more permanent movement and with greater distance moved, and would fund both military and peace officers, and all would be supplemented with volunteers and voluntary donations.

  30. No proxy votes

    No primaries

    No problem

    No sending plans to gerrymandering hacks

    No pets in any U.S. STATES

    RUSSIA FOR RUSSIANS, MOSCOW FOR MUSCOVITES – UNITED RUSSIA PARTY – RUSSIAN NATIONALISM – NASHA RUSSIA (where I’m from and where I live, I’ve been to USA for university & work and may or may not be back)

    My plan has nothing to do with constitutional amendment. It’s a systematic change of form of government which can be revolutionary or evolutionary but not evilutionary. Previous forms of government will fall by the wayside as we the people rise up.

    My plan is to be forged in the fires of internet fora and social networking. Then deployed and memed exponentially everywhere until it overwhelms the tired old paradigms if pyramid schemes and failures.

    My plan has some voters voting in some places for some things. It clearly defines who, where, how, why, when, etc.

    If you want to talk about being ignored, AZZ high handed commands for other people to tilt at windmills by bothering strangers to sign papers, or by spamming their junk mail, etc, without him even bothering to try to learn how to persuade even one person, learn how persuasion works, ETC would be great for getting ignored, which is exactly what happens to it when a few intrepid souls are not getting laughs at its expense.

    I don’t care about your law cases. We could live without such wastes of time and men’s potential. Simply by having a very simple one page written law. Applied by responding precinct peace officers acting as judge jury & executioner to situations encountered in the field.

    Keep It Simple Stupid / XOXOXO

  31. THE TYRANTS IN OLDE THIRD REICH AND EX-USSR HAD THINGS VERY SIMPLE [AND NOW PUTIN RUSSIA AND XI CHINA} –

    OBEY OR DIE.

    PR
    APPV
    TOTSOP

  32. You’re a total grade school submoron if you include right wing Putin with that bunch of left wing tyrants. Biden belongs with that group a lot more than Putin does, even though he is just a xi hand puppet.

  33. If you mean their systems of government are simple like the one I suggested, I must respectfully disagree. Nazi Germany, the USSR, and today’s China were/are messes of multilevel byzantine intersections of bureaucracies, masses of volumes of legalese legislation, regulation, administrative diktat, etc. Putin has made things better in Russia compared with the inept leadership in the 1990s or the soviet system, but sadly we still have quite a way to go to human scale government all of which would operate among people who know each other under laws all normally functioning adults can know, understand,and memorize, with peace officers they personally know adjudicating disputes.

    The best way to judge a politician, leader, ruler, or king is not the baseline they inherit, but how much of what is actually in their power that they could do to make things better or worse they do. Putin is doing a lot to improve Russia and make us great again. Under Yeltsin our once proud empire had become a universally derided joke. Trump was making America great again, but the derp state threw everything they had at him. Against all odds he remained standing, but was prevented from doing a lot more to save America, civilization, Christendom, and the WHITE RACE. But crucially the crucible of fire, the stolen election, and the laughable malicious persecutions he continues to suffer have only made him STRONGER, a true superman, natural leader, and man of titanium and diamond like Putin.

    Biden has been destroying America and selling you out to China far worse than the FAKE NEWS will ever tell you. But people see for themselves how his evil Beijing hatched policies destroy the west’s economy, western civilization and culture, national sovereignty, states rights, genetic heritage, safety from criminals and terrorists, etc, etc. In 2024 there will not be any way these idiots can steal another American president election.

    Thanks to useless idiot Braggart there is no chance Trump won’t win GOP. It was slim to none to begin with, that chance. They are miscalculating Biden can beat him in the same way they thought the clintoness could. But we know where the weak points in the elections that Xi and puppets seek to exploit are now, Trump knows the levers of power it took him a term to learn, etc. His second term is now inevitable, and working with Putin and Lukashenko hand in hand, they will save our planet from the evil designs of Luciferian globalism and all its despicable plots from great population replacement, great reset, and White genocide to soylent green/depopulation and everything in between.

  34. Of course Putin has to be diplomatic with Xi, much as TRUMP was with the little rocket boy and others. Don’t let a statesman’s diplomatic n-dimensional chess game confuse you into not recognizing their differences.

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