Parties in Alaska are qualified in advance of a presidential election if they either polled 3% for Governor, or if they have registration equal to 3% of the total vote cast for Governor. In 2014 the Alaska Libertarian Party received over 3% of the vote for Governor, so its registration was immaterial as to qualified status in 2016.
In 2018, the party polled 1.85% for Governor, below 3%. Therefore, it needs registration of 3% of the gubernatorial vote to be qualified for 2020. As of the November 3, 2018 registration tally, it has 7,442, a slight increase from the previous months’ tally. Alaska won’t know the final vote cast for Governor until November 16. The election night total was 239,946, but that doesn’t include the absentee votes. Chances are the party will only need a few hundred more registrations in order to be qualified.
If a political party in Alaska decided to permit voters affilated with a political body run for their nomination, would Alaska indicate the affiliation of the candidate on their ballot?
There’s an error in this post. The gubernatorial vote in Alaska this year was about 240,000, not 719,838. That would make 3% of the gubernatorial vote about 7,200, and the AK LP has more registrations than that already.
thank you, Joshua. I just fixed it.
the final vote will be higher because Alaska has lots of absentee ballots.
How many states don’t have the absentee ballot count on election day?
No state, because it takes time to process absentee ballots that arrive by mail. Election officials must compare the signature on the outer envelope with the signature on the voter registration form.
How many TONS of absentee ballots in CA – esp. in LA County ???
IE postal snail interstate BIG truck loads.
Are they put in fireproof vaults ???
— with all the possible CA natural and man-made disasters — esp. Nov. forest/brush fires.
ID scanner codes on AV outer envelopes speeds up checking sigs. – possible 1 sig each 3 seconds or less.
Time to open AV envelope, take out AV ballot, unfold, take off ballot number, stack batches.
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Scanner speeds ??? — major cooling fans — more global heating.
See Oregon — ALL snail mail ballots.
The qualification level is now up to 7601.
It is not clear when the test is applied. I would interpret it as meaning any time, and in particular at the time preparations are being made for the primary (late 2019). Libertarian registration dropped about 300 at the purges in 2015 and 2017.
Alaska should qualify all candidates as individuals (0.1% of gubernatorial vote or about 255 for statewide office). Candidates should be permitted to self designate. Election could either be by Top 2 or general election with a runoff.
@CP,
Signatures can be checked when the ballot is received, and the ballot in its secrecy sleeve can be pulled. Texas permits early votes to be tabulated on election day, and most are and reported minutes after 7:00 PM.
California lets counties take 30 days to report votes, so they do.
JR, Top Two voting system as used in California is OK in phase one, in the “primary”, in which a three-way tie can be broken by one vote each for two of the three top candidates garnering 33.33% (plus one vote).
That opens the way for a three-party system.
The problem is in the general election, for which only one name wins, it’s now switched to “Top One”. Not two names, and potentially one of each gender, but one name.
The United Coalition USA prohibits single-winner districts which guarantees a two-party system and single winner districts guarantee unequal gender balance which is already shown in our current two-party system of government.
Two-winner districts bring a three-party system.
But Top Two is actually a single-winner district in the 2nd and final phase, a two-party system. Top Two is biased mathematically, against third parties and independents, and guarantees the factoring of a two-party system.
Top two is largely a two-party system.
We cannot support that.
America is a melting pot and serious civil rights issues are violated under a two-party system that gerrymandered single-winner districts cannot mitigate.
Are you interested in pure proportional representation (PPR)?
The United Coalition has been using Parliamentary Procedures under pure proportional representation (PPR) for more than twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works fine.
United Coalition USA
http://www.international-parliament.org/ucc-p7-usa.html
Jim,
What Texas does is similar to Oklahoma where I am. The first reported results are always absentee and early voting, then the election day results start rolling in. It never occurred to me to think that other states wouldn’t do it that way, but of course it turns out that any part of the election process can be different depending upon what state one is in.
The RED Donkeys in 2019 in the gerrymander minority rule Congress will be pushing for a uniform election law to apply to ALL States — esp. having a gerrymander commission in each State having 2 or more USA Reps.
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Partial early voting returns encourages corrupt regimes to rig election results.
IE – NO reporting of ANY results for X minutes/hours after polls close.
More drastic —
NOOOO reporting of results until ALL votes in ALL precincts are counted —
Last vote counted >>> ALERT —
FLASH — Office area — names and votes.
Mini-data overload — or — USPS snail registered mail with lots of armed guards – police/USA marshals/posses — to central reporting place — delayed ALERT-FLASH.
Election results are now a matter of national security — like WAR orders/codes.
Numbers posted as of about 3PM today have the Alaska LP short by a little over 700 registered voters.
As the 2014 Governor candidate for Alaska (3.2%, thank you) and the 2018 Lt. Governor candidate, I am keeping good tabs on this. We are not 700 voter registrations short, only about 250, according to the latest data. I was not able to fully participate in campaigning this year, for personal reasons. In order to see the latest data, go to the Alaska Division Of Elections, and look at the link. Ccheck the total voters in the Governor’s race only, and do the 3% math. We had 7442 registered Libertarian voters on 11/3/18, but we all know that those numbers go down after the election. There is also a purge in March, every year. Encourage all your Alaskan friends to re-register Libertarian at the Div. of Elections website.
Thanks Care!