On March 23, the California Secretary of State released a tentative list of candidates who will appear on the ballot for partisan state office and U.S. House. The list is tentative because there are still eight lawsuits pending for excluded candidates.
The tentative list includes sixty-two candidates for Governor. This the second-highest number of candidates for a single office (not including presidential elector) in California history. The highest was 135 candidates running for Governor in the recall election of 2003.
Among the 62 gubernatorial candidates are 24 Democrats, 23 with the label “No party preference”, 13 Republicans, and one each from the Libertarian and Peace & Freedom Parties. Included in the candidates with “no party preference” label are the candidates of the Constitution, American Solidarity, and Socialist Workers Party (respectively, Don Grundmann, Duane Laynes, and Margaret Trowe).
how many zillion sos e folks — thousands ???
The California Secretary of State’s office has about 800 employees.
Don Grundmann will be an heroic Governor.
Will he make the top two? I thought he was more of a power bottom?
Cameron Point? Where’s that?
Dang Google autocorrect. Cameron Park is on US 50 a lil bit east of the Sactown suburban sprawl. If I’m remembering right Google is a little northwest of San Jose headed towards San Francisco.
I count 62, including 23 so-called NPP.
WHAT IS RECORD FOR A SINGLE OFFICE ???
WHEN TOP 2 STARTED ???
THE AZ-666 SPAMBOT AKA nAZi-666 SHOULD STICK TO ANSWERING IFO’S QUESTIONS ONLY !!!
Cameron Park airpark and lake is the shizznit! And Don Grundmann is the…man?
Approval voting might be a better form of voting on a primary ballot, of any sort, when you have a very crowded field.
If you cannot get rid of top-x in California, what could be improvements would be: 1. Allow parties to have a veto over who may run on their labels. 2. Allow the primary winner of each qualified party to proceed to the final. 3. Allow independents who pass some agreed upon minimum threshold to proceed to the final election.
@WZ,
The candidates swore on their affidavit of registration that they were affiliated with a particular party. That preference appears on the ballot. They could be charged with perjury. The ballot explains the meaning of a candidate’s preference. Political parties may make an endorsement and have that endorsement appear in the sample ballot which is distributed to every voter prior to the election.
A better approach would be to move the election to October, where the first (or primary) election could result in a majority election. If there is no majority winner, all candidates with 10% or more of the votes advance to the second election a short time late. Other candidates may aggregate their votes to advance additional candidates. Candidates may also withdraw.
One ballot per candidate as is done in France. Perhaps candidates could be charged for the ballot, distributed as they like. Voters could still write in a name on a separate write-in ballot. There could be a separate paddock for each office. After voting for one office a voter would proceed to the next paddock.
If you want to limit the initial field, let supporters of a candidate appear at a county courthouse, with some minimum requirement such as 1000 voters.