Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect, here writes that California Democratic legislators ought to work to repeal California’s top-two system. Meyerson has been a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect, here writes that California Democratic legislators ought to work to repeal California’s top-two system. Meyerson has been a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Can someone explain to me why Democrats in the legislature aren’t introducing bills to allow write-ins in November? That cannot be because they are unaware that there’s an issue.
@Bob Richard,
The deadline to introduce new bills isn’t until February 20th. Bills introduced relatively early tend to be either spot bills (that do nothing or something minor and non-controversial) or bills designed to grab media attention for the authors. A bill to allow write-ins in November is neither of those, so it’s no surprise one hasn’t yet been introduced. If no such bill is introduced by the end of next week, the answer to your question becomes important.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=154237
congress hacks getting O-U-T —
BEFORE THE WHOLE ROTTED MINORITY RULE REGIME COLLAPSES ???
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PR
APPV
TOTSOP
https://california.public.law/codes/elections_code,_division_8,_part_1,_chapter_1.5
CA HACKS PASSED A SPECIAL/TEMPORARY LAW RE THE CA TOP 2 PRIMARY IN JUNE 2026
NOOO MENTION OF WRITE-INS
8600 (b) is the no wi in the ca top 2 primary.
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CA Elections Code section 8600
(a)Every person who desires to be a write-in candidate and have their name as written on the ballot of an election counted for a particular office shall file both of the following:
(1)A statement of write-in candidacy that contains the following information:
(A)Candidate’s name.
(B)Residence address.
(C)A declaration stating that they are a write-in candidate.
(D)The title of the office for which they are running.
(E)The party nomination which they seek, if running in a partisan primary election.
(F)The date of the election.
(G)A certification of the candidate’s complete voter registration and party affiliation/preference history for the preceding 10 years, or for as long as they have been eligible to vote in the state if less than 10 years, if running for a voter-nominated office.
(H)For any of the offices described in Section 13.5, a statement that the candidate meets the statutory and constitutional requirements for that office as described in that section.
(2)The requisite number of signatures on the nomination papers, if any, required pursuant to Section 8062, 10220, and 10510, or, in the case of a special district not subject to the Uniform District Election Law (Part 4 (commencing with Section 10500) of Division 10), the number of signatures required by the principal act of the district.
>>>>>(b)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person may not be a write-in candidate at the general election for a voter-nominated office. <<<<<
(c)A write-in candidate shall have their residence address, telephone number, and email address appearing on the affidavit of registration made confidential in accordance with the terms and conditions of Section 2166.9. If a candidate does not state the candidate’s residence address on the statement of write-in candidacy, the elections official shall verify whether the candidate’s address is within the appropriate political subdivision and add the notation “verified” where appropriate on the declaration.
Source: Section 8600, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=ELEC§ionNum=8600. (updated Jan. 1, 2026; accessed Dec. 29, 2025).
Stop changing the subject and answer Ifo’s questions, spambot.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-touts-bill-could-voting-210008338.html
women – right to vote – last names – vs birth certificates
fed bill / vote feb 11
Meyerson has a faulty recollection of the 2012 CA-31 Election. The two Republicans in the Top 2 primary collectively had a majority of the vote. That is NOT a “very Democratic Inland Empire district.” In 2014, Democrat Pete Aguilar was a elected with 51.3% of the vote. That is NOT handily defeating the Republican, who was not the incumbent.
Meyerson likely represents a left-wing entryist faction of the Democratic Party. In a partisan primary, many voters have no idea about the candidates who are running. They may make their decision based on the sex, ethnicity, looks, etc. of the candidates. A disciplined cadre can instruct their supporters who to vote for in the primary. With no runoffs in California partisan primaries, the party nominee might be chosen with 30% or less of the party vote.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-appointed-judge-dismisses-dojs-204527253.html
Trump-appointed judge dismisses DOJ’s case against State of Michigan, SOS Benson
Steven Bohner
Tue, February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM EST
A case brought by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) against the State of Michigan and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was dismissed by a Grand Rapids judge on Tuesday.
Hon. Hala Y. Jarbou, who was nominated by President Trump in 2020, granted the State of Michigan and Benson’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that sought unredacted voter rolls from the Michigan Department of State (MDOS).
The DOJ requested voter rolls from multiple states, including Michigan, in an attempt to “ensure that voter registration records are accurate, accessible, and secure,” according to a statement from Attorney General Pamela Bondi in September of 2025.
Before the lawsuit was filed, Benson and MDOS delivered the public version of the voter rolls — known in Michigan as the Qualified Voter File (QVF) — to the DOJ, according to a letter from the Department of State.
The public version of the QVF omits personal data like voters’ Social Security Numbers.
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HOW SOON BEFORE A SCOTUS CASE ???
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/11/grand-jury-democratic-lawmakers-video-charges/88617382007/
tyrant trump goons fail to get the 6 indicted — military law — unlawful orders
10 USC §892. Art. 92. Failure to obey order or regulation
Any person subject to this chapter who-
(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;
(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or
(3) is derelict in the performance of his duties;
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
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HOW MANY UN-CONSTITUTIONAL / UN-LAWFUL ORDERS, CIVIL OR MILITARY, HAS TYRANT TRUMP OR HIS GOONS ISSUED –SO FAR ???
Primaries should use approval voting. That way, if there is a large field of candidates, then the voter can split the vote among several candidates whose views best represent the voter’s own preferences.
“In a partisan primary, many voters have no idea about the candidates who are running. They may make their decision based on the sex, ethnicity, looks, etc. of the candidates. A disciplined cadre can instruct their supporters who to vote for in the primary”
This is even more true in a larger field such as a “top two primary”, but it’s true in any individual candidate election. That’s why I support taking individual candidates names off the ballot and voting only by party, among other reasons.
Approval voting is terrible. It should be banned. The system is very gameable by small organized factions and the vote counting is a mess. Communists love it.
I agree with Ofi about the AZ spambot.
USSR Yesterday is fake news. All of Liberator Trump’s orders are constitutional, unlike his fascist communist foreign puppet predecessor Cho Bai-Din, who was installed in a stolen election.
The same being true of his other predecessor, the ineligible foreign born terrorist Baraq Insane Osama and his postmaster husband Michael (the tranny “Michelle”).
The SAVE ACT needs to be passed and signed into law to safeguard our elections and prevent a recurrence of the stolen election of 2020.
Women should have no right to vote. None.
Forever Trump, I want to have forever Trump
Do you really want Trump as President forever?
Forever, and ever
Forever Trump, I want to have forever Trump
Do you really want Trump forever?
Forever Trump!
Relax and don’t worry, it’s going to be fine. The White People’s movement keeps getting bigger all the time. I’m dreaming of a White nation, just like the ones that I once knew. And now with mass deportation, my dream is starting to come true!
I support Donald Trump by supporting White Power and I support White Power by supporting Donald Trump!
White revolution is the only solution!
Things really started to go to hell quickly when they started letting broads vote. They need to get back in the kitchen and let men make decisions, especially in politics.
Real Facts
“AZ spambot,
As always, if President Trump was a tyrant, you would be deprogrammed, your programmers would be in prison, and this website would be taken down.”
Duh!
It’s too bad the AZ-666 SPAMBOT cant be programmed to only work in North Korea so it could see what a real tyrant does as it gets deprogrammed in a horrific manner.
The problems boil down to giving voting rights to a whole bunch of people who shouldn’t have ever had them, which goes hand in hand with them voting themselves ever more of other people’s money, ever more burdensome regulations, voting to bring in additional welfare parasites, spies, terrorists, commies and criminals from every part of the world.
While it would be nice for two Republicans to be on the final ballot for Governor of California, the people there haven’t earned such good fortune, and won’t get it. The Democrats (more accurately known as demon rats) will consolidate behind a candidate or two before the end of the process.
Their names will still appear on the ballot, but they have the financial and media reach resources to inform enough of their supporters that they are suspending their campaigns and endorsing other candidates to have the same practical effect.
Of the more likely events for California, tectonic plate subduction is the least terrible outcome, particularly for the coastal areas.
Deporting the entire population of all coastal counties of California would also make America much greater. It doesn’t matter what shithole countries they get deported to, only that reasonable measures are taken that they do not ever return.
I’m not sure, but I think even California might be ok once we deport everyone who is in the U.S. illegally, is only “legal” due to the disastrous 1965 immigration law – the worst legislation to ever pass into law in 250 years – and crack down in a draconian way on drugs and crime.
We would also need to complete dismantle all welfare programs, end women voting, reinstate the draft, bring back prayer and segregation in public schools or privatize them all, and if possible send back the outdated farm equipment of the 19th century to its ancestral continent of origin. As a bonus, all communists would be dropped from helicopters.
Once those common sense steps are taken, California could perhaps be restored to its former glory when Reagan was governor, but even better without hippie and negro riots.
California is a beautiful state. Any place in the world can be turned into total hell by left-wing fascists and commies. And any place can be transformed into a great place to live with patriarchy, Christian nationalism, capitalism, and most of all White Power.
Some good things do come out of Cali. The Aryan Brotherhood originated in the California penal system. The White Aryan Resistance was created and based in California, although Tom Metzger moved it to Indiana before he died. The Golden State Skinheads and the Rise Above Movement, also from the Cali coast. Hail!
Sane people still in California should get out while they still can.
There are many great Americans even on the California coast, they are just vastly outnumbered by criminal alien invaders, leftard zombies, drug addicts, feminazis, mentally ill gender benders, etc.
States should certainly be able to secede, but some states should also be expelled from the USA, and Calipornia is most definitely at the top of that list.
https://notthebee.com/article/fbi-says-they-have-substantiated-major-irregularities-in-the-2020-election-in-georgia
The whole discussion of California makes me wonder: is there a constitutional mechanism for congress to convert a state to a territory?
Democracy is always a race to the bottom of a bottomless pit – governance by the lowest common denominator of a continuously dumbed down product of multigenerational broken families, propaganda mills, filthy vulgar entertainment, brain eating social media, population replacement, breeding by the dumbest (see idiocracy), the lazy and stupid voting tax extorted welfare for themselves, chemical warfare through narcoterrorism, etc.
Christian White Nationalists must create our own independent living spaces, whether as anarcho-capitalist enclaves or as neofeudal, theocratic, or Capitalist meritocratic micronations with very limited voting rights along a corporate shareholder model. We’ve seen what continuously diluting the (breeding) stock does to a constitutional republic. It’s time to learn the lessons and terminate a failed experiment before we get to full third world status or worse.
Trump is only a first step. We must move much, much further to the right.
@Jim Riley,
I don’t think that Harold Meyerson got it wrong that CA-31 was a “very Democratic district” in 2012. If you look at the votes for President and US Senate in the general election that year, the Democratic candidates got 57.2% and 58.7%, respectively. While the two Republican congressional candidates in the “top two” primary did total 51.5%, it was because the 48.5% for the Democratic congressional candidates was split four ways that both Republicans made it to the general election. That the Republican congressional candidates did get 51.5% of the vote in the primary is a reflection of the primary election voters being different from the general election voters more than anything else; for Senate, the Democratic candidates had 49% of the vote in the district vs 47% for Republican candidates and 4% for third-party candidates.
One thing that Meyerson did get wrong was that it was an open seat in 2012. It was the first election in a newly drawn district after the post-2010 census redistricting, but Gary Miller, the Republican who came in first in the primary and was elected in November, was listed as the incumbent.
Another thing he got wrong was that it was “the one time” vote splitting among too many Democratic candidates resulted in two Republicans as the top two in the primary. I don’t have the other details at hand, but I believe there have been several such cases since California began using “top two”, I think four or five where too many Democratic candidates resulted in two Republicans making the general election in a Democratic district and one where too many Republican candidates resulted in two Democrats making the general election in a Republican district.
Many people are making good points here.