Minnesota Legislature is Likely to Stiffen Definition of a Qualified Party

The Minnesota omnibus bill, SF 3230, has been amended to include a provision making the definition of a ballot-qualified party more severe. It raises the vote test from 5% to 8%. Assuming that becomes law, it will give Minnesota the nation’s fourth highest vote test. Only Alabama, New Jersey and Virginia will have a higher percentage for the votes needed for party status.

The bill also now says in addition, a qualified party must have an organization in about two-thirds of the state legislative districts (45 of 67), or alternatively about two-thirds of the counties.

The bill does not take effect until November 2024, so at least if the bill passes, the Legal Marijuana Now Party will be on the ballot during 2024. Minnesota law permits parties to change their names.

Minnesota’s petition for party status, 5%, is very likely unconstitutionally difficult. The bill does not change the party petition. Given its history of not having been used since it was created in 1913, it probably violates McLain v Meier, a 1980 decision of the Eighth Circuit that struck down North Dakota’s party petition, which had existed since 1939 and had only been used once, in 1976. Minnesota and North Dakota are both in the Eighth Circuit. No one has ever before sued Minnesota over its party petition.


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Minnesota Legislature is Likely to Stiffen Definition of a Qualified Party — 32 Comments

  1. BALLOT ACCESS FOR INDIVIDUALS – NOT *PARTIES*.

    ALL STATE LEGIS – MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER OLIGARCHS

    P-A-T

  2. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

    Also; you’re the same clueless moron who thinks TRUMP is like Hitler? Seriously?

  3. The Demo Rep party will be on the ballot: “It will leave you confused both coming and going.”

    Right, Azzzz?

  4. OMG. I JUST SAW IT FOR MYSELF IN ANOTHER THREAD. HE REALLY DID SAY THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS EXACTLY LIKE A DICTATOR WITH AN 8 DIGIT BODY COUNT WHO INVADED DOZENS OF COUNTRIES AND LEFT HIS COUNTRY A BOMBED OUT WRECK DIVIDED AND OCCUPIED BY FOREIGN ENEMIES AFTER HE KILLED HIMSELF. THEN KEPT DOUBLING DOWN AFTER IT WAS POINTED OUT OVER AND OVER JUST HOW CRAZY THAT IS, HOW OFFENSIVE IT IS TO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO CRY WOLF AND THUS MAKE IT EASIER FOR A REAL HITLER TYPE DICTATOR TO POSSIBLY ONE DAY TAKE POWER HERE. THAT’S NOT JUST MENTAL INCOMPETENCE, ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT TOO. THAT’S THE KIND OF DANGEROUS LUNACY THAT DESPERATELY CRIES OUT FOR INVOLUNTARY MENTAL HEALTH CONFINEMENT FOR THE SAFETY OF THE PATIENT AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

  5. Missouri Legislature Fails to Pass Bills that Injure Initiative Process
    Posted on May 13, 2023
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    AZ on May 15, 2023 at 7:58 am said:

    on paper defects = always exploited by anti-Democracy monsters –
    prime examples-

    Hitler in 1933-1934
    
DJT in 2017-2021
    —–
    TOO MANY TROLL MORONS WITH 0.666 IQS TO COUNT –
    AGENTS OF T AND RNC HQ IN DEVIL CITY ???
    —-
    P-A-T — REDUCE THE ON PAPER DEFECTS OF REGIMES.

  6. Yeah, I saw what you said. It is literally clinically retarded. The fact that you’re proud of saying something so unbelievably moronic, offensive, and ultimately dangerous for the reasons explained above, shows that you should be locked up in a mental asylum for the good of society, as well as for your own good.

  7. Democracy is a form of government in which you are ruled by the decrepit, the mentally retarded, or the openly sociopathic. Frequently all of the above.

  8. No wonder the troll moron monster “Az” with no detectable brain activity (possible agent of Xi and BEIJING, like Biden) loves democracy so much.

  9. MONARCH / OLIGARCH REGIMES —

    RULED BY KILLERS / LOOTERS / ENSLAVERS / BULLIES [FROM PRE-SKOOOL] — FOR 6,000 PLUS YEARS.

    TOO MANY TROLL MORONS TO COUNT WHO LOVE THE EVIL ROTTED PAST.
    —-
    P-A-T

  10. HITLER APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER.

    FATAL SUSPENSION SECTION IN 1919 GERMAN WEIMAR CONST.

    PURGE OF ANTI-HITLER PARTIES IN GERMAN PARL [REICHSTAG].

  11. Democracy, monarchy, and oligarchy aren’t the only options. Only a decrepit, mentally retarded, open sociopath such as Az who loves democracy and can’t tell the difference between TRUMP and Hitler would jump to such retarded conclusions about what other people want just because they don’t want to democratically march like good little sheep to a slaughterhouse like Az wants.

  12. Trump never purged any parties, which was another of the many reasons that equating TRUMP and Hitler is both mentally retarded and openly sociopathic.

  13. Trump is right. The criminal activity revealed in the Durham report needs to be prosecuted. That’s not a purge, it’s cleaning up corruption and crime. Question marks aren’t evidence, and only a decrepit, mentally retarded, morally bankrupt sociopath would insist Trump is just like Hitler based on nothing but weak and flimsy insinuations by question.

  14. The Babylon Bee article is spot on. Az remains the clueless preschool moron troll who can’t tell the difference between Trump and Hitler. He either couldn’t care less that this is incredibly offensive to holocaust survivors and their families, or that it helps make it easier for the next Hitler to rise to power by crying wolf when there’s no wolf there, or he actually realizes that those are exactly the things he’s doing and continues doing them for those exact reasons.

  15. Is that why he loves the big lie technique so much, much like Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels?

  16. Az might be only half a Nazi, or he may be a total Nazi. Either way, he’s a big fan and practitioner of the big lie:

    “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

    “…in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation…”

    The OSS psychological profile of Hitler described his use of the big lie:

    His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

    Neither Hitler nor Goebbels would admit to lying. Goebbels always maintained that propaganda had to be truthful. That doesn’t mean he didn’t lie, but it would be a pretty poor propagandist who publicly proclaimed that he was going to lie.

    If that doesn’t sound just like AZ, I don’t know what does.

  17. Equating Trump and Hitler is a good example of the big lie technique at work.

  18. Everything Az says, including his constant relying on fake news sources, demonization of anyone who disagrees with him here as well as his chosen scapegoats and anyone in any way aligned with them, and repeatedly doubling down on the most ridiculous of lies no matter how many times they are called out and logically shredded with evidence, is the big lie technique at work. We have an absolutely picture perfect case study of the big lie technique in action here with AZ.

  19. STANDARD TROLL MORON MONARCHS/OLIGARCH STANDARD OPERATION PROCEDURE [ESP BAN TROLL MORONS] — AKA BIG LIE —–

    IGNORE ALL THE MONARCH/OLIGARCH TYRANNY, DEATH, SLAVERY, OPPRESSION, DESTRUCTION FOR 6,000 PLUS YEARS.

    TRY TO GET MORE KILLERS / ENSLAVERS AS MONARCHS / OLIGARCHS – ESP NOW RIGHTWING KILLERS – LIKE TRUMP- EX- RIOT INCITOR-IN-CHIEF.
    —-
    END THE RULE OF TROLL MORONS [TROMS] —- TOP TO BAN TYPE SLUGS/THUGS TROMS

    — SEE OLDE SA NAZIS IN GERMANY — BEFORE GETTING PURGED BY SS NAZIS IN 1934.

    P-A-T

  20. Az comment started out as an apt self description of himself as a standard troll moron whose MO is the big lie.

    Naturally, he commenced to ignore previously introduced evidence that democracy has only accelerated tyranny, death, slavery, oppression, and destruction over the past century or two vis a vis the more traditional monarchy and oligarchy, much less that those are not the only options.

    He falsely claims that there is some large movement to reinstitute absolute monarchy, or that Trump is a killer or enslaver or wants to be a monarch or tyrant, with no evidence for his scurrilous charges.

    He also falsely claims that Trump was a riot incitor in chief, again offering no evidence for his big lie. In reality there’s zero evidence that Trump ordered or incited any riot, including on J6, and the only person killed that day was murdered by capitol police. Contrary to inciting a riot, TRUMP made a speech calling on his supporters to protest the election theft peacefully. Far more significant riots were invited by Burn Loot Murder and Antifa, which Trump protected the country from much more effectively than Biden, but far less effectively than he could have if the deep state and the globalist manipulators of public opinion had not stood in his way.

    If anyone should be banned here, it should be the slug troll moron Az, if for no other reason because he insults holocaust survivors and their friends and family by falsely equating Trump to Hitler and crying wolf to make an actual Hitler more plausible in the future. Unfortunately, the proprietor is a fan of Az. But one can easily observe Az tyrannical communist tendencies in falsely branding anyone who calls out his lies troll morons, and in calling that opposing views be banned altogether. Having much more love of freedom and respect for readers intelligence and discernment, those of us opposing Az call for free speech, even for a troll moron slug as reprehensible as Az.

    I’m not sure what point Az is trying to make about different kinds of left wing Nazis, unless he’s trying to make the case that he’s an elite left wing SS nAZi who thinks he will purge other, less elite left wing SA Nazis.

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