Fifteen Delaware legislators have introduced HB 215, which moves the non-presidential primary from September to the fourth Tuesday in April. It also requires parties that nominate by convention to have chosen their nominees by March 15, and to submit their names by April 1. Current law allows the names to be submitted by September 1.
The bill is discriminatory because minor parties (those which nominate by convention) would need to have chosen their nominees more than a month before the major parties.
Minor party presidential and vice-presidential nominees would not need to be filed until the Tuesday after that party’s presidential convention.
HOW MUCH BALLOT ACCESS ACTION BEING FORCED INTO 1 YEAR OR MORE BEFORE A USA PREZ MINORITY RULE GERRYMANDER ELECTION ???
Why would anything having to do with an election take place more than a year before that election? Nuts!
Without party nominations and primaries there is no need for these preliminary activities.
@Max,
Imagine you had a business helping candidates run for office. If you can spread your business out over a longer period you can have full time employment.
ACTUALLY DUE TO D/R NATL CONVENTION MACHINATIONS
THE RIGGED ELECTION ROT GOES ON IN 4 YEAR CYCLES – ONE NATL PREZ CONVENTION TO NEXT NATL PREZ CONVENTION —
WITH LOTS OF STATE MACHINATIONS IN BETWEEN.
USA/STATES/LOCALS DEBT — $$$ 45 + TRILLION
HYPER-INFLATION / DEFAULT G-O-A-T ECON CRASH AHEAD.
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P-A-T
Jim Riley, I don’t think that a business based off stupid laws which would otherwise not exist is a productive use of time and money. Without those stupid laws, the money would find better uses, and the people doing it would find better investments/businesses/jobs/uses for their skills/time/money.
AZ is a waste of time, but in case anyone else is actually reading: I don’t believe the length of your election cycles is the primary problem here. You had those cycles for essentially your entire national history, although I’d have to look up again whether at the state and local level the general trends have been towards longer or shorter cycles. You might know without looking it up.
The biggest culprit is that your government has grown so prec
Under my proposal, there would be no candidates, just officeholders appointed by the winning party. The elections would be once a year. The government units would be 100k with about 100 voters, each of those numbers give or take within the order of magnitude in either direction. I doubt there would be sufficient business to help parties win elections. Actually, I think it’s more likely parties would not even want to win elections.
The office of peacekeeper, as I envision it, would probably be viewed more like jury duty than like something to contend for vociferously. I still think voters would show up and do those jobs if selected for them. I could explain again why I don’t think winning would be seen as a big prize, and/or why I don’t think there would be an issue getting voters to show up anyway, or peacekeepers to do the jobs if selected for them, but I won’t unless you or someone who is not AZ wants to discuss. As it is, it’s a waste of time.
In the meantime, what I said still holds either way: such businesses are taking resources from more productive pursuits. Don’t get me wrong, I have zero interest in centrally planning anything, or telling anyone how to spend their time or money. That statement is only because the business only exists because of something that’s a gigantic waste in the first place (bloated, centralized government which has many candidates seeking many positions of many sorts, with so much interest in them because government sticks its nose into way too many things). Thus, I can say with confidence that the resources in question could find better uses, without knowing what exactly those would be.
The problem, additionally, is not just that government is so bloated and centralized, although those are definitely problems. It’s also the sheer scale of population and territory, vastly different than at your founding. There are many others, but they basically boil down to: if there wasn’t an entity controlling so much money and poking its snout into so many things, there would be far less money and time spent fighting over who’s in charge of various parts of it or to what extent.
I agree with you that there should be no primaries or party nominations, but not because I want candidates running without parties – I’d prefer to have parties running without listing candidates. I think that element of my proposal would still work in isolation from the others, I just think it would work better together with them.
All aspects of proposal can be examined, separately or together, whenever who is not AZ wants. Suggestions for better venues for such discussions always sought also.
HOW ABOUT START A MAXZIM WEBSITE OF ELECTION REFORMS ???
— AND GET THE TROLL MORON USUAL LIST OF SUSPECTS AND GOVT SPIES.
I’m not interested in starting any websites. Also, I was not asking you. Whenever I ask anything now, it’s directed at people who are not AZ.
MAX ZIM HYPING HIS MONARCH/OLIGARCH REFORMS TO CURRENT KILLERS IN RUSSIA — P AND FSB ???
— OR EVEN TO ORDINARY STREET FOLKS NOW TRYING TO AVOID ANOTHER CIVIL WAR INSIDE RUSSIA ???
AZ loves shutting down opposing views and religion like was done in the Ukraine.
@Max,
Politicians have egos. They don’t know to be elected, or how to raise campaign funds. So they hire someone who handles the paperwork and directs them to people who have money.
You can raise more money if you collect over longer periods of time.
If you can raise money for the primary and then the general election even better.
AZ is lying, as usual. He knows I’m not a monarchies. President Putin and Federal Security Service have immediate concerns vying for their limited time and attention. Long range planning of ideal government systems is hardly their wheelhouse. Why would they be interested in something that is either at best many decades or even centuries away, or of necessity only plausible after a systems collapse that would obviate them?
There’s no civil war in Russia. The march on Rostov was, granted, a few levels above J6, but still more farce than reality of any civil raw. Ordinary street folks are interested far more in immediate problems of their lives. My speculative plans are far more suited to very particular niche audiences.
As I mentioned before, U.S. history makes such speculation less remote than Russian history, especially in certain aspects. However, I’ve not found the correct fora for intelligent discussion of such things even in the US based fora of seeming possible relevance. Hence my question, which like all of my questions now is directed to people who are not AZ.
Jim Riley, I realize quite well how it works at present. I’m suggesting that all of it is unnecessary wastes of time, money and energy that otherwise could find more productive uses. I’ve explained why no such market would exist under my proposal or anything remotely approximate to it. I’ve explained how, even far short of my proposals, such a sink of resources better employed otherwise, while not entirely done away with, is at least minimized. Was anything unclear or hard to understand, or was it simply too long to read rather than skin or skip? I don’t see how your comment logically relates to any of mine otherwise.
@Max,
You had asked “why would anything to do with an election take place more than a year before that election?”
I explained why.
It is unclear what your measure of productivity is. Those engaged in the activity do receive income which they may use to feed, clothe and house themselves.
I replied to that original response of yours on that. I thought, perhaps in error, you were responding to my subsequent replies at that point.
My measure of productivity is that fixing an intentionally broken window does nothing to add to real productivity. Likewise, digging ditches and then filling them right back up. Any of those can be made to generate income for the people who do them. This seems to me to be quite similar, in that while there is activity taking place and income generated, nothing is being accomplished that would be necessary if government wasn’t so excessive in size, scope, scale, etc.
Supposing on the other hand the market niche was done away with, whether by my proposals or any number of other ways, the capital, human resources, etc would find other uses, which would be likely to be more productive.
@Max,
Doing away with primaries would eliminate the market niche.
This would seem to be more practicable than your proposal.
Practicable may be a factor of time scale, conceivably preceding system collapse (not preferred, but not necessarily presentable), and other factors which could impact practicability. I’m not as convinced that merely doing away with primaries would eliminate such time and resource sinks as people for hire to file campaign resources, raise money for political campaigns, helping politicians run campaigns, and so on.
I may be wrong, but to me it seems that getting rid of the market niche for such people or companies would require at least somewhat comprehensive changes than that in isolation, even if well short of my entire set of theoretically optimal proposals. There are of course many other classes of political rent seekers as well.
RUSSIANS IN 10TH CENTURY [OR EARLIER] RELATIVE TO END OF DARK AGE IN MOST OF EUROPE AFTER 1492 ???
HOW SOON BEFORE PUTIN’S KILLERS WIPE OUT A-L-L WAGNER FOLKS – AND THEIR FAMILIES ???
ONE MORE PURGE IN RUSSIAN KILLER HISTORY.
Wow, the AZ nonsense keeps getting weirder. I suppose nothing can be surprising coming from that particular source of nonstop bizarre fiction. Its hallucinations about Russia must be kept in view of the hallucinations about his own country’s immediate past and future President:
Donald Trump is a successful billionaire businessman and entertainer who was President of the USA for 4 years, largely a period of peace and prosperity. He didn’t start any wars and didn’t seize any powers the Presidents before and after him hadn’t employed. Governed successfully despite persistent persecution by the deep state/fake news spin machine. In the final year of his first term in office, Chinese Communists who were mad that he was making America great again and threatening their plots for world domination launched intentional biowarfare, used that same deep state/fake news complex to crash the American economy through unnecessary overreaction thereto, sponsored race riots in American cities, and used all those things as cover to massively ramp up election fraud and steal the Presidential election on behalf of their senile dementia ridden geriatric quisling puppet. A few hundred Trump supporters, plus some agents provocateurs, got carried away while protesting the election theft during his last month in office. Most of those were limited to simple trespass as far as any illegal acts committed. The only person killed that day was on the side of the protesters. Zero evidence of any coordination or authorization of any illegal trespass by Trump himself, who publicly called on supporters to protest forcefully but peacefully and legally. Left office legally, like every previous US President. Retired temporarily from office, now running to win back the office stolen from him after the quisling puppet’s disastrous term in office while continuing to be persecuted and slandered by the usual suspects.
Adolf Hitler was an immigrant war veteran and failed painter who personally led an illegal secessionist march in Bavaria and served a jail term for his illegal coup attempt. A decade later he was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg, then proceeded to seize all power through a combination of legal and illegal means. Ruled Germany for 12 years. Invaded dozens of countries, occupied almost all of Europe and chunks of northern Africa. Millions of people on his own side and his enemies side alike were killed, including many millions of civilians. In the end, his country was a bombed out wreck, divided and conquered by its enemies in war. Killed himself in a bunker.
AZ believes that the most significant difference between the two is that Hitler served time in jail. He also thinks the US is a monarchy, among other knee slippers.
Keep this in mind when he opines about my country, or indeed anything else.