On April 12, the California Assembly Elections Committee passed AB 459. This is the National Popular Vote Plan bill. It also gained some Republican co-sponsors. Thanks to Pete Martineau for this news. The vote was 5-1.
The Committee also passed two bills that legalize write-in votes when the voter forgot, or didn’t know, to “X” the box next to the name written in. These votes would only be counted, however, if the election involving the write-in candidate is very close, and there is a possibility that the write-in candidate might have won, if these votes were counted. These bills are AB 461 and AB 503.
Ironically, both the National Popular Vote Plan bill, and the write-ins bills, had been passed by previous sessions of the legislature, but both ideas had been vetoed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The committee also passed AB 481, which requires people who are circulating an initiative, referendum or recall petition to wear badges, telling if they are being paid or if they are volunteers.
Why doesn’t the legislature eliminate eliminate Elections Code 8606, and replace it with a prohibition on a defeated candidate at a primary being a write-in candidate for the same office at the ensuing special or general election?
This could be made specific to voter-nominated offices, but there is no reason it could not also apply to nonpartisan and partisan offices (if there were actually any partisan offices).
1. NO national definition of Elector in the NPV scheme from Hell — get those voters from Mars and beyond.
2. Re- write-ins — Standard fiction – ALL folks know ALL the laws and court cases.
3. Instant court cases if the badge stuff gets enacted.
How many badges on folks in 1776 doing ANTI-Brit regime petition stuff ???
What a gift to the GOP! The Dems are even more stupid than I thought.
Casual Bystander may be more stupid than the Dems.
CB, didn’t California just elect a Republican governor a couple times and I got news for you…that is a statewide candidate.
Absolutely NOT! National Popular Vote is a Democrat Dirty Trick to steal the Presidential election. The sore, Al Gore losers, came up this hair brain evil ideal to eliminate the Electoral College. The Founding Fathers were brilliant men who designed the Electoral College system of government that has withstood the test of time and it works.
The Electoral College was designed to prevent the election of the president based on popularity, The EC process was specifically designed to keep smaller states, Iowa, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Wisconsin engaged in the election process and to give them a voice in national politics. Elimination of the EC would make the presidential election a popularity contest only in the mega urban areas like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle. Rural areas would be ignored
To strengthen the Electoral College in California the Congressional District Electors Initiative #10-0024 is in the collecting signatures process. Website:ElectoralReformCalifornia.com
Richard Winger
In they get the 270 electorial votes, which state do you think will adopt Paul Demeny’s “kinderwahlrecht” first.
If Murry Rothbart can let a child of five vote on who he
wants to live with, viz., a parent or a petifile with candy and toys. Why not let an a child vote for a president that will give him a toy for a vote?
Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American Independent Party
# 5 The Electoral College is one of the 3 ANTI-Democracy EVIL indirect minority rule gerrymander systems in the U.S.A. regime.
E.C. — Half the votes in half the gerrymander areas — to get 270 of 538 E.C. votes
— i.e. in practice about 28 percent of the total votes in about 30 States/D.C.
EVIL and VICIOUS – with the New Age party hack winner claiming a 100 percent *mandate* to go powermad nuts as Prez.
P.R. legislative and nonpartisan App.V. executive/judicial