On May 8, Steven Maviglio filed paperwork with the California Secretary of State to begin an initiative petition to repeal top-two. It would restore the California Constitution the way it was during the years 2002 through 2010. Qualified parties would have the right to place their nominee on the general election ballot. Each party would be free to decide whether to let independents vote in its primaries.
Here is the website for the initiative. It reveals that leading Democratic Party leaders, and also some Republican Party leaders, support the initiative. The initiative would be on the November 2028 ballot if it gets enough valid signatures. The current requirement is 874,641 signatures, to be collected in ten months.
Maviglio was once named one of the most influential Democratic Party leaders in California. He has worked for several Speakers of the Assembly and also for former Governor Gray Davis. He has run initiative campaigns for two dozen initiatives.
If the initiative passed, write-ins in the general election for congress and state office would automatically be restored, because the part of the election law that bans write-ins for those office in November would no longer pertain to any actual election.
This is the second initiative to be filed to repeal top-two. The first one, in 2017, authored by Tom Palzer, a Republican, did not get enough signatures to get on the ballot.
Interesting. Now there needs to be a competing petition to replace the current system with IRV/RCP.
RCP is communist.
No Communist government in the world ever used ranked choice voting.
Richard Winger is still mixing up communist with out in the open communist. 99%+ of communists in non-communist nations pretend to be just about anything other than communist. Their long term agenda is to bring down those countries and make them communist.
Rcv is part of that communist agenda because it makes voting and vote counting even more complicated and confusing than it already is, which is way too much already, and thus makes vote fraud, vote manipulation, vote counting fraud etc even easier.
Once communists control a country they have a different agenda.
This has been explained to Mr. Winger many times in past article discussions.
Australia has used ranked choice voting for over 100 years. Does Real Facts think that citizens of the United States are less capable than citizens of Australia?
Ranked choice elects communists. New York City and Alaska are two examples.
In November 2024, Republicans won both statewide elections in Alaska, for president and US House.
Australia is much less free than it was a hundred years ago as a result. Voting needs to be simplified and made fraud proof, for example through the Max/Vera/Stan plan Aka standing count vote in person only , on the record, by party only. Rcv moves things in the wrong direction.
NOOO primaries
equal ballot access
PR – legis
Appv – nonpartisan execs/judics
I worry about abandoning reform entirely. We don’t need to undo the Top-Two system. California needs to upgrade the top-two primary with Approval Voting.
The goals of Top-Two were to increase voter choice, expand participation beyond party insiders, and advance the strongest candidates to the general election. Vote splitting is what often prevents the system from fully achieving those goals.
Approval Voting would let voters support every candidate they want to see advance without fear of splitting the vote—unlocking the full potential of the Top-Two system.
https://www.upgradethetoptwo.com
No primaries.
Equal voting access by showing up.
No proportional representation. Maintain constituent services.
No approval, ranked etc voting schemes.
No “nonpartisan” elections.
Approval voting is a downgrade.
Alaska elected a communist Congresswoman a few years ago. They also got RINO commie Murkowski.
RCV favors communists. That is just a fact.
Ranked choice voting makes each vote count in final election outcomes while letting people vote for their most preferred candidates.
If you’re against that, your problem isn’t with communism, it’s with real democracy.
No it doesn’t you sick fucking freak. RCV elects communists.
Seriously get mental help. Learn how to dress normally.
“Real democracy” = communism.
Why doesn’t the wording of the initiative submitted to the AG match that on the website?
Why does the initiative preserve that ridiculous bit about the State of California providing for the election of party officials? Isn’t this confounding the role of party and state. Remember that was just stuck in there because of the ridiculous provision in the Washington Constitution that provides for partisan filling of vacancies that saboteurs tried to use to overturn the Top 2 primary.
Why keep that silliness about the Open Presidential Primary?
Democratcy was never the goal of the USA. IT’S INCOMPATIBLE with liberty!
“If the initiative passed, write-ins in the general election for congress and state office would automatically be restored, because the part of the election law that bans write-ins for those office in November would no longer pertain to any actual election.”
This is the part I don’t get. Yes this initiative removes the ban on write-ins on the General Election ballot, but where in the election code does it say that they must/should/can be included?
Richard said in an earlier post, “Australia has used ranked choice voting for over 100 years . . .” Australia has a king. We (the United States) are a constitutional republic. We got rid of the king about 250 years ago. The success of the Libertarian Party will take a lot of effort on our part. Irv and RCV are not magic pills that will lead to our success. Hard work and effort will.