Eric Hafner, one of the four candidates who will be on the ballot for the Alaska U.S. House race, is currently living in a prison in another state. See this story.
Eric Hafner, one of the four candidates who will be on the ballot for the Alaska U.S. House race, is currently living in a prison in another state. See this story.
Love how the article openly admits communists want this kind of voting. It’s pure evil.
Donald Trump is the name of the Patriot who’s dreaming of killing invaders and listening to them screaming!
So Alaskans can vote for two convicted felons in both statewide elections this year, one Democrat and one Republican. Seems fair.
The story gives too much credibility to Alaska Dems protesting Mary Peltola, tho the story IS right about who she is. That said, given the wingnut level of the site, I’m sure this is just a dig at Alaska Dems; the rest of the piece is of less than top-shelf credibility.
oh, man. This is going to hurt the opponents of repeal soooo bad. That’s ok, Top Four can go to hell.
Not me, based on DeSanctimonious’s reply, thinking that the article actually stated that communists want this kind of voting…
Apparently “liberal billionaires” are communists now.
This is a more balanced article and includes a telephone interview with the candidate.
https://www.krbd.org/2024/09/03/eric-hafner-advances-to-the-ak-us-house-ballot-from-federal-prison/
Note that when Hafner ran for Congress in Hawaii he ran as a Republican.
Liberal billionaires have always been communist. They just want communism on the installment plan.
How do communists force compliance to their “secular” delusions that differs from how fascists force compliance to their mystical delusions?
Good catch on the Communist Rethuglican, Jim Riley.
I’d vote for him.
Just Me and Progressive Leftist are of course Robert K St0ck doing their retarded trolling.
Stop trolling is of course Robert K Spock doing their usual trolling.
In 2012, Keith Judd was incarcerated out of state (New Mexico?) running in the West Virginia Democrat primary and came close to defeating Obama with 40.65%. Anything can happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Judd
Just me: Jim Riley has never made the impression that he’s a communist or a thug as far as I’ve ever seen.
40% is not close to winning.
Trolling is bad, mmkay.
Especially when “stop” trolling is trolling.
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TOTAL VOTES / TOTAL MEMBERS = EQUAL VOTES TO ELECT EACH REP
@AZ,
How would that work in Alaska?
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AK LAND WOULD BE PART OF A LARGER AREA — HI / PACIFIC COLONIES / WA STATE
@AZ,
Would you ignore Article I?
ALL THE ELECTION STUFF IN ART I AND ART II IS ANTI-DEMOCRACY.
SEE OTHER POST RE 2016-2020 MINORITY RULE IN USA REGIME
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/03/politics/video/blue-dots-omaha-nebraska-democrats-election-zeleny-ac360-digvid
MORE TARGET PRACTICE DOTS ???
ANY RED AND WHITE DOTS ???
Is there any form of voting that makes it less likely for criminals to run for office?
Standing count under what was originally the Max plan, although he seems to have abandoned it.
To run, probably not. Though, of course, there could be legislation barring anyone with a criminal record from running. I wouldn’t recommend it though, because it will inevitably be abused by those in power to false accuse their opponents of crimes. In fact, this already happens all the time.
But to win, perhaps. For example, one could have a positive vote and a negative/anti vote. You cast the positive vote for the candidate you most want to win and the negative vote for the candidate you least want to win. If the electorate considers a candidate criminal, that candidate would presumably garner more anti-votes.
Enter the standard objection against this: it is theoretically possible for votes to exactly cancel each other out and nobody to get elected. My knee-jerk response is to say that the odds of that happening with a large electorate are astronomical small. But nonetheless this can be avoided in several ways.
For example, everyone could get only one vote OR one anti-vote. There are plenty of people who dislike one specific candidate more than they like one specific candidate. Of course, it is still theoretically possible for votes to exactly cancel each other out. And, what I consider to be a more realistic danger: it is possible that most, if not all, voters use an anti-vote and nobody gets elected, or that a low-profile candidate wins not because they got many positive votes, but merely because they received less negative ones.
An alternative by Roy Minet that tries to account for this, was recently featured here on BAN. In it, every voter gets two positive and one negative vote. The idea is that, even if each anti-vote exactly cancels out one of the positive voters, the other positive vote will select the candidate who is “most acceptable” to the electorate overall.
Now, I don’t want to appear as if I am necessarily endorsing this form of voting. And it wouldn’t stop criminals from running for office. But it is worth considering that it might prevent those widely perceived as criminals by the electorate from winning the election… Food for thought.
Accountability would be based on the elected officers being primarily known in the community through their many nongovernmental roles, which are far more important.
@AZ,
You avoided answering my question.
Would you ignore the “election stuff” in Article I?
Local elections where everyone knows everybody may limit the ability of criminals to run. But, it would not stop it entirely. Plenty of corrupt town governments everywhere; especially when a demographic group controls the election, and votes for their own, no matter what. James Michael Curly got elected Mayor of Boston from jail.
I think the GOP candidate for Wayne County, MI sheriff is currently in Federal prison.
Chase Oliver should be in prison.
Agreed. Chase Oliver supports abusing our children. He is a sick freak.
An article and two sets of court documents on Taras P. Nykoriak, winner of the GOP primary for Wayne County Sheriff:
https://www.thehamtramckreview.com/perennial-candidate-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-falsely-redeeming-church-bonds/
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-miwd-1_15-cv-00410/pdf/USCOURTS-miwd-1_15-cv-00410-0.pdf
https://www.courts.michigan.gov/c/courts/coa/case/354410
Chase Oliver also supports covid mandates like previous candidate Marxist Jorgensen. What happened to actual libertarians?
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CONSTS GET IGNORED BY SANE FOLKS WHEN THEY ARE FATAL
1787 USA CONST – DUE TO FATAL DEFECTS IN 1777 EMERGENCY ARTS CONFED
13-14-15 AMDTS TO REMEDY SOME OF THE FATAL DEFECTS IN THE 1787 CONST –
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NOOO REMEDY MADE IN 1865-1870 FOR MINORITY RULE IN USA H REPS / SENATE / EC
ALL USA FOLKS- TRY AND WAKE UP YOUR LOCAL MEDIA KNOW-IT-ALLS ABOUT THE TOTAL R-O-T IN THE USA AND STATE ELECTION SYSTEMS
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TOTSOP
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/ken-paxton-bexar-county-voter-registration/index.html
TX AG ATTACK ON REGIS FORMS MAILED OUT
REDO 1836 ALAMO BATTLE– TO LIBERATE 2024 TEXAS ???
“Local elections where everyone knows everybody may limit the ability of criminals to run. But, it would not stop it entirely. Plenty of corrupt town governments everywhere; especially when a demographic group controls the election, and votes for their own, no matter what. James Michael Curly got elected Mayor of Boston from jail.”
These town governments are comprised of people who make government their livelihood, rather than a temporary duty a la jury duty. They run on their personal charisma, wealth, and/or connections, which are all the things which empower them to misuse their office. None of that would be the case under the proposal I’m discussing.
@Stan,
Is there a website for your proposal?
No. It’s in the archives here, originally advanced by Max, but he seems to have grown tired of discussing it and moved on. I’m less smart, but doing what I can to keep it alive.
It’s really more like a set of proposals.
Any of them are adjustable, and they might work independently although they are interdependent. From here to there was never worked out, which might be why Max doesn’t spend time on it anymore.