A poll for New Hampshire was just released by St. Anselm College Survey Center. In the U.S. Senate race, where Constitution Party nominee Edmond Laplante is the only candidate on the ballot other than the major party nominees, 5% of the respondents say they will vote for “other” (the poll did not mention Laplante). Also, 50% favor the Democrat; 43% favor the Republican; and 2% are undecided.
If Laplante gets 4%, the Constitution Party will be ballot-qualified in New Hampshire for the first time, and will get its own presidential primary in 2028.
In the Governor’s race, where a Libertarian is the only choice on the ballot other than the two major parties, “other” gets 3%.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-admin-seeks-block-alaska-084354685.html
tyrant trump at work
ak 2 Sullivans
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/citing-preamble-to-nvra-doj-sues-to-enjoin-certification-of-alaskas-senate-race-it-wont-go-anywhere/
ELB ON AK 2 SULLIVANS TYRANT TRUMP MACHINATION
HOW MANY MORE ***ENJOIN*** CERTIFICATIONS MACHINATIONS IN OTHER RACES – FEDERAL / STATES / LOCALS — BY THE TYRANT TRUMP HACK SO-CALLED LAWYERS IN THE DEPT OF JACKBOOTS — AKA DOJ
Blocking the Alaska results would be the right thing to do regardless of who wins in any case because not nearly enough was done to ensure marginal voters know which Can Sullivan they are voting for.
That’s the result of allowing far too many people to vote and then having unreasonable, out of touch with real world evidence expectations of how much they will study their voting choices and how well or correctly they will retain whatever they think they know when they are actually voting.
It’s also the result of having printed ballots, voting by candidate rather than party, multiple different offices voted on separately in one election, and many other proven bad idea’s, including having government units and numbers of people voting that are way too large for most of the people voting to personally know everyone who is running in real life.
All of those things and more have to be changed to have a sane system of government.
Incremental moves in the directions I posit are welcome. We keep getting moves in the opposite directions, with predictably escalating negative outcomes.
Trump is correct here. Seating Peltola would promote tyranny rather than help stop it. For multiple reasons which are both process and outcome based,
It should go without saying, but won’t, that the AZ SPAMBOT, as always, posts links to biased, tilted propaganda sources which distort reality in numerous ways.
Unfortunately, according to what I keep reading in other discussions here, links to sources which tilt things in the right direction are disabled here, while links that tilt reality in the wrong, sinister, leftard / communist direction are constantly posted nonstop in both articles and discussions.
Your case for equitable election rules and enforcement thereof is undercut by the inequitable way you treat links to different sources in your comments.
9 VOTES – 3 DISTRICTS GERRYMANDER EXAMPLE
PARTY A PARTY B TOTAL
51 50 101
51 50 101
0 101 101
102 201 303 TOTALS
33.7 66.3 100.0 PCT
PARTY A CONTROLS WITH 33.7 PCT OF TOTAL VOTES
WORSE MATH WITH 3 OR MORE CANDIDATES AND UNEQUAL VOTES PER DISTRICT
WITH MORE DISTRICTS – 1/2 OR LESS VOTES X 1/2 RIGGED GERRYMANDER DISTRICTS = 1/4 OR LESS CONTROL
REMEDY – PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION = INDIRECT MAJORITY RULE = DEMOCRACY
I doubt anyone has any clue what all that screaming is supposed to mean. My guess is that it’s just designed to distract, so even fewer people will read my comments above it than otherwise.
Hopefull news, but 4% is still way too steep. Eliminate all ballot access laws and primaries (unless totally funded by the participating parties) and go to 100% write-ins in general elections.
You are correct about everything except the last part, which would actually make things worse.
For anyone as used to comparing poll results and election results as Richard Winger must be, the poll suggests neither of those minor parties is likely to become ballot qualified from this election. For it to indicate otherwise generic “other” would need to be in double digits right now.
All write in would advantage the parties and candidates with more resources than others to reach more voters and make their candidates memorable and get out the vote
Write-ins like we have here in West Virginia where only bona fide candidates who file notarized candidate announcements (free) have their names listed on the list of authorized write-ins which is posted at every polling location and only those write-ins are counted. All of the joke write-ins get discarded. Sure, the respective parties would hold their nominating conventions and decide who to spend resources on promoting. That is what freedom of association and free speech are all about. Sore losers who didn’t get their party’s nomination could still run, but they wouldn’t have their party behind them. All in all, it’s a pretty equal and fair arrangement.
Posting a list of names few people know anything about doesn’t do much of anything to change any thing I said.
Many people can’t read and write, or barely can. Those numbers are growing at an accelerating rate among younger generations and look likely to reach medieval levels by the end of this century.
Many people have little time or attention for elections.
An all write in system still advantages the parties, groups, people and candidates with the most time, money, connections and other resources to organize and communicate and study elections.