On April 1, the Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 2023 law that says voters who change party affiliation during the 96 days before a primary cannot vote in that primary. Malcom v Gray, S26-29. The decision says the law does not violate the State Constitution, because it is necessary to prevent “party raiding.” Here is the decision.
The law was passed following the 2022 primary for U.S. House. Incumbent Liz Cheney was defeated in that primary by Harriet Hageman. A large proportion of Wyoming Democrats had changed their registration to Republican weeks before the primary, so as to help Cheney. That didn’t work to save Cheney, but it motivated the legislature to pass a law making that behavior impossible, unless it was done very early.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-doesnt-rule-invoking-insurrection-161820109.html
TYRANT TRUMP – I ACT MACHINATION – ELECTION
Each party should decide for themself how early voters need to be enrolled in their party to vote in their primary.
Each party should be formed at each year’s election by mutual consent. There should be no multi steps, multi details, multi days of months process. All the unnecessary complexity needs to go.
Parties should be able to select officeholders after an election if they win, and swap them out at will until the next election.
Ultimately and hopefully before too long there should be no multi precinct elections for anything. Start with the top levels, dissolve, then work down.
So long as multilevel elections exist, each election can among other things elect that area’s electors to the next higher level election, and so on.
If we – or, I should say, those of you who can reasonably expected to live that long, in 50 years still have elections with multiple precincts, levels, steps, qualifications, separate votes for multiple offices, no ability for a party to fill an office without selecting a prospective officeholder ahead of an election, or anything involving writing or printing in any way – all signs point to a single digit percentage of the population being even slightly literate by then, much less functionally – we’re doing it wrong.
Hopefully, all that Will be gone much earlier.
An article like this about current events by then should be unimaginable by then. The same is true of most other articles at this site. If somehow one of the few people who can still decode these squiggly hieroglyphics comes across these kinds of articles in whatever media may have them stored by then, they should instantaneously recognise that it was from a bygone era which isn’t fondly remembered — that is, our current one – without looking at any dates.
parties are N-O-T independent empires – esp of oligarchs/monarchs
public offices – public nominations – public elections – public Electors-Voters – public election laws
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NOOO RIGGED PRIMARIES
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No matter how many times the AZ computer program posts that pernicious nonsense, just like everything else it posts, that remains pernicious nonsense, wholly unholy pernicious nonsense, and nothing else but pernicious nonsense.
No.primaries is, by way of accident much like a broken clock being right twice a day, the only thing it gets right.
Parties should choose and administer their own nominations process, whatever it may be, with no interference from any level of government.
Government issued ballots, and indeed written or printed ballots of any kind, are a bad idea whose time has passed, a failed experiment, and an invitation to endemic vote counting fraud.
No ballots, no ballot access problems. Access to election should consist of two things – being qualified to vote, which should become much, much herder, and the willingness and ability to get the election hall on the annual election night.