1. Were Mike Feinstein to run for Los Angeles County supervisor, he would have pay the filing fee or collect 7152 signatures from his supervisor district worth a paltry $0.25 each. By comparison, if he were to run for governor, he would only have to get 2848 signatures more from an area with 20 times as many people, and each would be worth $0.36.

   What Feinstein fails to recognize or acknowledge is that the burden he complains about falls on all candidates. He seeks to return to the privileged status of before (“I got mine, mate”).

   What Feinstein should be advocating is replacement of the filing fee and nominal petition requirement, with a small petition of support (say 1/10 of 1% of the gubernatorial vote in the district) or a fee in lieu of petition at a reasonable rate (say minimum wage divided by 10 minutes per signature).

   The current fee makes it more efficient to collect cans from the side of the road to pay the fee than to collect signatures from voters.

   Under my proposed system, Feinstein would need to collect 312 to 583 signatures, depending on his district, or pay a fee of $416 to $777, or a combination of the two.

2. NO primaries — to spare the poor suffering public from nonstop election stuff.

   P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.

3. Mr. Feinstein is exactly right.

   Additionally, any electoral contest operating within a system that favors strategic voting over preference voting and also is always concluded by a de facto run off posing as an election, that contest and future ones are denied any plausible chance of a third viable option, excepting big celebrity or money. Candidates wishing to serve are forced into what are state-sponsored political divisions that are, together, an affiliation lie and an unchecked monopoly.

   Sometimes less is less.

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