On May 19, a Nevada state court ruled that political parties may choose nominees in the upcoming special U.S. House election. The case is Nevada Republican Party v State of Nevada, 11oc-00147, in First Judicial District Court, Carson City. See this story. The judge is permitting parties until June 30 to choose a nominee. There will be no primaries, so these nominees will be chosen in party meetings.
The ballot-qualified parties are Democratic, Republican, Independent American, and Libertarian. Any independent candidate, or any nominee of an unqualified party, may also run with 250 signatures.
So, qualified parties have until June 30 to choose their nominees, yet “unqualified parties” and independent candidates had to turn in a petition by May 18?
I am almost positive the court order extended the independent petition deadline to June 30 as well. But I haven’t seen it yet. I am drawing that conclusion from the newspaper story, which says the judge extended deadlines in general.
Getting 250 Signatures takes 10 people getting 25 valid signatures each. It would be a big project for a single person to achieve without much help. Easy enough for most organized groups.
After reading the story the Republicans were worried that people who aren’t party members would run as Republicans? How is that different now with state primaries where most people who file to run in a party primary are not members of that party. If you only want party members to get nominated then we should just eliminate primaries and nominate by convention. Then party members will be the ones running. You won’t have Democrats running as Republicans to get elected.
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The oligarchs win again — due to the party hack MORON robots in the NV legislature.
#4, if parties didn’t have nominees, and individuals ran, then several Republicans would have run, thus splitting the Republican vote. There is no run-off and also no primaries; both sides agreed on those two things.
How many super-MORON State regimes do NOT have *complete* laws for filling U.S.A. Rep and Senator vacancies ???
Is NV the most EVIL stupid of the bunch ???