The Los Angeles Times has this op-ed by Law Professors Robert Delahunty and John Yoo. It says that California’s new law on presidential primary ballot access and tax returns violates freedom of association for political parties, because it interferes with the Republican Party’s choice of whom to nominate for president.
UPDATE: Dan Schnur makes the same point in this commentary. Schnur was an independent candidate for Secretary of State of California in 2014. Even though he had held many important appointive posts in California government, he only placed fourth in the top-two primary and did not qualify for the general election.
TWO more NEW AGE MORON Profs.
Each elected officer has QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE OFFICE.
I see Senate Bill 696 now before the Assembly Appropriation with Hearing on August 14, 2019 at 9 AM
In room 4202 the same type of move. It demands that the American Independent Party of California change its name by December 1, 2019 a Sunday or on New Years
Day 2020 the State of California Secretary of State will declare that over 518 thousand California electors who gave a party preference of American Independent Party will lose their Party Preference and be declared “No Party Preference”.
@MS,
A simpler solution is to eliminate all partisan registrations.
Let each voter choose a party ballot when they vote. If desired a political party could select who could vote their ballot. You might have a Democrat official who gives his Da or Nyet as the voter appears.
NOOOOOOOOO primaries.
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