On May 8, Ohio held a primary for the Republican, Democratic, and Green Parties. The votes aren’t all counted yet, but it appears one-fifth of 1% of the voters chose a Green Party primary ballot.
By contrast, in 2016, only .11% of the voters chose a Green Party primary ballot. And in 2014, only about .07% did so.
Ohio gives all ballot-qualified parties a primary, except that newly-qualifying parties nominate by convention instead. The Libertarian Party expects to be a ballot-qualified party soon in Ohio, but its nominees will not be chosen in a primary.
NO primaries.
PR and AppV
Demo Rep’s replies are starting to get so predictable that it’s comical now.
Demo Rep only posts worthless crap. I skip over all of his/her/it’s posts.
It would be hard to go anywhere but up, and I say that as a Green voter in most cases where I have the opportunity.
It could be a bit higher. I assume you are basing your estimate on the number of votes for gubernatorial candidates.
I couldn’t find votes cast per party on a statewide basis but did for a couple of larger counties (Franklin(Columbus) and Hamilton(Cincinnati).
In Franklin, there were 549 Green Party voters, with 429 voting for the sole gubernatorial candidate, for a 22% undervote. In Hamilton the gubernatorial undervote was 40%. In Franklin County, the Democratic and Republican undervote were 2.4% and 2.5% for their respective contested gubernatorial races.
There was also a nonpartisan ballot. In Franklin County, 4.0% of voters took that.
Statewide 9.1% of voters did not cast a gubernatorial vote, either by skipping the race in their party’s primary, or voting a nonpartisan ballot.
Franklin County had an amusing statistic. Ohio tracks party registration, even though voting in a primary is the only way to affiliate with a party (other than running as a candidate). If a voter skips a primary they remain affiliated. So in Franklin County, 59% of Green Party voters turned out, including all those who affiliated on election day. Turnout for nonpartisans was 6%, since one can maintain their nonpartisanship by not voting in any primary.
I do like his comments “PR, no primaries”.
But no so much AppV, because AppV is not pure proportional representation (PPR).
We see many people claiming to support PPR. Many are candidates for elective office. But their message is no good, they self promote themselves, and expect as a mouthpiece that everyone will vote for their name.
Who wants to vote for a conceipted egomaniac?
Pure proportional representation (PPR) requires good teamwork to attract votes and by demonstrating teamwork with our call for “opposite gender #1” our team is increasing the information flow about the best team players under PPR.
The JUNK responses by/from the clueless juvenile MORONS on this list to the nonstop ANTI-Democracy primary / convention / gerrymander statist oligarchy machinations is what is sadly predictable.
See 1776-1865 folks who kept saying —
Abolish slavery now.
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PR and AppV now — pending Condorcet.