On July 31, a Utah state trial court ruled in favor of keeping Celeste Maloy on the September 5 Republican primary ballot. She is running in the special congressional election to fill the vacancy in the Second District. Her ballot status was challenged on the basis that she wasn’t a registered Republican when she filed. This news story says she was not registered at all on that date.
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court said that if a party wishes to nominate a non-member, it has a constitutional right to do that. Utah law says no one can run in a primary who is not a registered member of that party.
Well that’s pretty good. There should always be more choices on the ballot. Also, you spelled vacancy wrong.
FAKE + VACANCY = FACANCY ???
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CANDIDATE/INCUMBENT REPLACEMENT LISTS — NOOOO MO SPECIAL VACANCY ELECTIONS.
Thank you, James.
Candidate replacement lists are a stupid idea. If I ran for office I’d have to either rank all the other candidates as zero or play eenie meenie miney moe. I wouldn’t vote for a candidate who felt otherwise.
A REPLACEMENT LIST WOULD BE
IF/WHEN A PERSON WAS A CANDIDATE OR
IF/WHEN THE PERSON GOT ELECTED.
Replacement lists are fucking retarded. Do you want a 12 page ballot with 10 candidates per party per office? Do you have any idea how much that costs? Are you really that stupid and looney?
@Bob,
AZ wants an officer to designate his replacement if the office becomes vacant. It is like a vice president or lieutenant governor.
The Texas Legislature has a procedure like that if a legislator is called to active duty, they can name a temporary replacement.
AZ wants fewer elections? Sounds like he hates democracy.
HOW ABOUT REPLACING AZ WITH SOMEONE ELSE?
NV BEST IDEA I HEARD YET!
@Sam,
If we wanted to eliminate special elections, it would be better to have a sample of voters select a replacement.
I thought AZ required candidates to rank all other candidates in order to run. Not yet answered is whether I’d be precluded from running if I rank all other candidates as zeroes. Do the replacements have to be other candidates or would they run on a ticket together?
AZ CAN’T EXPLAIN BECAUSE HIS IDEA IS FUCKING IDIOTIC.
Yes, almost as idiotic as the death penalty just imposed on American hero Robert Bowers. Talk about a travesty of justice!
AZ’S OBSESSIONS:
PAT
PURGE LISTS
REPLACEMENT LISTS
PROPPING UP POST OFFICE
SPREADING COMMUNISM AND DICTATORS
EATING PETS
HATING TRUMP AND LOVING BIDEN
RIGGING ELECTIONS
BEING LAUGHED OUT OF COURT
THIS WEBSITE
WHAT DID I MISS
Killing trees.
I feel like AZ is very smart and right about everything.
I don’t think it’s really cool how people pick on AZ and make fun of him instead of trying to learn when he’s teaching the class. I mean we’re all here for a reason, am I right?
I MAY NOT OF BEED DA SMARTEST KID ON DA SHORT BUS BUT I FEELZ LIKE SPECIAL ED BE RITE.
AZ N SPECIAL ED BEES MY TOO BESTEST FREINDZ!!!
Duh AZ is the bestest. Duh he loves rcv like I do duh duh my iq be 37
Please change me.
AZ is actually a top level genius. He broke up with me in junior high when he singlehandedly, and I mean that quite literally, developed asexual human reproduction. He then very patiently explained to me that girls are stupid, smell funny, have cooties, and nag all the time. I was deeply ashamed but had no choice but to accept his decision. I couldn’t find another boy like AZ so I stayed single. After I finished high school they let me stay on as a lunch lady and assistant gym teacher. I kept doing that until I retired. Then I moved to a nursing home. I still miss my genius AZ, but all he wants to do is chase after some young hussy named Pat who doesn’t even want to go out with him.
I remember AZ, special Ed, and Tater. In preschool we used to call them the clueless troll morons. This was way before computers and the internet, so the reason we called them that was their short stature, humped backs, and bug eyed dirty appearance. None of them had the right number of fingers or toes and I don’t want to gross you out by telling you about some of the things they ate.
I used to be AZ’s plumber. He fired me in 1973 and said my prices were too high. I called around to my competition but they all had higher prices than me.
He used to sell me fertilizer for my roses.
@DF,
AZ favors statewide proportional representation through STV. But that might require a voter to rank dozens or hundreds of candidates. So instead each candidate would rank the other candidates. Voters would vote for a candidate in their locality.
But imagine if you failed to be elected. Your votes would be transferred to someone who you liked and had similar views.
What if no such people were running, would I still have to rank candidates I find equally stomach churning?
@DF,
If AZ were in charge, perhaps you would have been kept off the ballot.
How familiar are you with Australian elections, particularly for the Senate?
Not at all. Why do you ask?
GA-
PURGING TROLL MORONS OFF OF BAN —
SENDING THEM TO A TROLL MORON WEBSITE —
SO THEY RAVE AT EACH OTHER AND NOT BOTHER WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
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P-A-T
So why doesn’t AZ set up that website and lead the way?
Geez AZ, leave Pat alone. She’s not interested in you.
Why does AZ hate trees? Trees are our friends!
@DF,
In Australia senate elections there can be dozens of candidates (nearly 100 in some states). With 6 to be elected, the quota is 1/7 of the total votes. If voters don’t rank enough candidates, ballots will be exhausted and some candidates will be elected short of a quota.
This can be seen as frustrating the purpose of redistribution which is intended to produce equal stacks of ballots.
In AZ’s model a legislature might have 100+ members and it would be more important to have full preferences.
Sounds cockamamie. I don’t like the assumption that I have any preference for more than one candidate either as a candidate or voter. It also makes election cheating and intentionally caused confusion easier and more prevalent. Elections should be simple.