1. CANDIDATE/INCUMBENT REPLACEMENT LISTS – LEGIS BODIES

2. TOTALLY RETARDED

3. Here’s the letter:
   https://lpmn.org/lpmn-press-release-2025-01-18/

4. Vote by party. Parties can always fill vacancies

5. Why Ballot Censorship is Fascism
   Voting by secret ballot, or voting anonymously, is compulsory for all elections in the United States. A person eligible to vote is exempted from the compulsion of the secret ballot only by not voting at all.
   Before the late 1880s no government could compel the eligible voter to cast a secret ballot.
   All ballots cast in elections were public publications of opinion in private documents, that is, the voter owned the ballot just as a newspaper publisher owned the paper their opinions were printed on. The paper was private property, the opinions were public.
   Secret ballot laws are a confiscation of the right to ownership of the paper if it is used as ballot in government elections. Secret ballot laws established a monopoly of paper for use in balloting.
   A government monopoly of the paper medium was then used as the means for controlling the content published by the voter. All ballot content is now subject to censorship by political authorities.
   Most ballot litigation has focused on the voter’s access to the states’ monopoly ballots by eligible voters.
   By using the monopoly ballot, the voter has lost control of their right to publish freely their opinion. This is most starkly evident in states where all write-in voting is prohibited. By losing all property right to the medium, the voter has lost all control of the content.
   Censorship of ballot content exist for all ballots cast in all elections in the United States. This form of censorship is known as ballot access laws applied to whose names may or may not appear in the ballot. This restriction on content serves to censor the voter’s opinions. The voter may only publish opinions on candidates approved by the state to appear on their monopoly of the medium – the ballot.
   It is possible to prevent this censorship of voters by taking away the states’ power to dictate content, that is, whose names the voter may publish using the state monopoly medium. The abolition of all ballot access laws for candidates accomplishes the restoration of the voter’s right to publish as it was exercised before the 1880s.
   The result of abolishing ballot access laws results in an elegant write-in only ballot with full editorial control vested in each individual voter.
   I call my proposal for this elegant ballot the Liberty Ballot. The Liberty Ballot means no pre-election candidate filing fees, no forced labor to circulated petitions which comply with tedious regulations and arbitrary deadlines. All these regulations only serve to suppress candidacies and voter participation by all but incumbents of two particular political parties and their supporters.
   Censorship of ballots is incompatible with the U. S. Constitution as well as any intelligible theory of democracy or a representative republic.
   It is consistent with a fascist form of government.

6. Standing count solves the issue.

7. Gary is 100% correct.

8. I agree with Gary, Frank, and SCS.

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