January 15 was the deadline for Mississippi presidential primary candidates, and for other office as well. Three Republicans will be on the presidential primary ballot: President Donald Trump, Rocky De La Fuente, and William Weld.
The Democratic presidential primary ballot will include ten names: Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Pete Buttigieg, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Deval Patrick, Bernie Sanders, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren, and Andrew Yang. Candidates got on the Democratic ballot by paying a fee of $2,500, and submitting 500 signatures. Any registered voter could sign. Thanks to Jim Riley for mention of the mandatory petition.
For the congressional races, no minor party has any candidates, except that the Libertarian Party has a candidate for U.S. Senate. See the list here.
Mississippi requires payment of the $2500 filing fee AND a petition.
The petition may be either 500 statewide OR 100 in each of the 4 congressional districts.
Until 2016, the SOS would determine the primary candidates. In 2016, after the primary the law was changed. Instead the parties tell the SOS which candidates have qualified. The filing fee is paid to the party. Before candidates file their petitions with the party, they must be certified by county officials.
Nom Pets ONLY.
I suspect John Delaney will be dropping out soon.
Why Female Libertarians Don’t Have Voting Power Explained as One-party System Vs Three-party System
Edited By James Ogle for President
1/17/2020
Prez and Vice President, like chair/vice chair, Gov/Lt Gov, etc., is a selection process for two seats.
The two seats can be elected in two single-winner elections (like most elections, including the Libertarian Party) or both seats can be elected simultaneously under the Droop Quota in one election and that brings proportional representation.
Single-winner election districts attract the types of personalities who emit the message “I am better than everyone.” while multiple-winner election districts under pure proportional representation have the message “I can work with anyone as a team.”.
When the threshold is over 50% there is only one winner. That one winner is not a team.
The Droop Quota is a threshold of 33.33% and the two names breaking the three-way tie with one vote, represents three potential winners where two of the three win by one vote.
The third person in the three-way tie (after all ranked choice votes are single transferred under proper vote counting using the single transferable vote), the third name is one vote away from attaining 33.33% plus one vote, so that’s how a three-party system comes into play.
This does not require three parties as in political parties, the three groups can be factions within a party, a person with a free speech word by the name or independents.
The two winners under the Droop Quota combine for a guaranteed minimum satisfaction level of 66.66% (plus two votes).
Electing all names simultaneously saves time, because there is one election instead of a second election for every seat, so multiple winner election districts where all seats are elected in one count is more efficient and time-saving.
One Party System
When conducting the second election for Vice President in single-winner districts, the threshold is over 50%. That same faction can elect the second name in a second separate election, the guaranteed voter satisfaction level being over 50%, and that faction is the one faction who wins both seats (like a one-party system).
Both seats combined have a guaranteed voter satisfaction level of just over 50% and the same one biggest faction (males?) elected both seats.
Three Party System
Under the Droop Quota the guaranteed voter satisfaction level is 66% (plus two votes), and that’s always higher than the one-party of just over 50%.
Should any faction (women?) attain the 33.33% (plus one vote) then they are guaranteed to elect/nominate one of the two names.
Obviously since female Libertarians make up less than around 19% from the 2016 Johnson/Weld campaign, they din’t have the voting power to nominate/elect as a block either intentionally or unintentionally, under any voting system.
The only way Libertarian Party female Electors can nominate/elect under plurality, approval and other sustems of voting, is to attain more than 50% of the Electors/voters.
Two Party System
Plurality voting brings a two-party system because sometimes a 2nd biggest party might win randomly when too many good candidates vie from the biggest group causing the split-vote problem. That’s how we get the two-party system.
One Party System
But under approval voting and other “advanced” voting systems that mitigate the split-vote problem, no 2nd party gets random wins, hence the “one-party system”.
This is what the New Hampshire L.P. Convention brought. Only the biggest faction can elect both seats, one election at a time, and strategically that group can win many elections over and over because they consist of over 50% of the voters.
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Under pure proportional representation, any faction such as female Electors/voters, need only 33.33% (plus one vote) of the voting power to elect/nominate one of the two seats.
The Libertarian Party uses Approval Voting (AppV), plurality voting or ranked choice voting in single-winner districts. They do not use pure proportional representation under Droop Quota. So no faction can win in the Libertarian Party except one faction – the biggest.
That one faction is like a one-party system and since men make up more than 81% of the Libertarian Party Presidential Electors from the Johnson/Weld 2016 campaign, women have no voting power as a stand-alone block.
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NH Vice Chair Richard Manzo wrote:
“[Chair] Darryl Perry is an expert in voting systems.”
Me:
Richard Manzo is incorrect. Those wanting a one-party system over a multi-party system are simply self-destructive do-gooders with good intentions, but they are bringing insane damage like in SF, Oakland and Maine where ranked choice voting in single-winner districts are cemented into place despite our pointing out to Rob Richie and Richard Winger back in 1992/3.
It’s incorrect for Richard Manzo and former chair Darryl Perry, who had treated my Prez candidate Tiffany Briscoe with foul trouble by making false accusations against her personal integrity in 2012, the work they do to snuff out women’s power is wrong and must be reversed.
They are piling on trouble against urgent work that must get done.
As a candidate for US President with the Libertarian Party in 2020, our problems brought by the two-party system are big enough without having to deal with the internal push for Darryl and Richard’s move to the one-party voting system.
After Tiffany won the BTP nomination in 2012, Perry revoked the nomination, in his accusations that she didn’t graduate from college as listed on her bio, when the college was contacted they said she wasn’t a graduate.
Despite being disabled, and despite others questioning the her goals for struggling to graduate, she was scheduled to graduate that summer but Perry “jumped the gun” without regret.
Everyone can see that males wanting single-winner election districts have no respect for women and the competition they bring those males who insist on male-domination in politics.
They say something to the effect; “Women want voting power in LP? Then attain far more than 50% of the Libertarian Party Presidential Electors so to have that ability.”
Then when the four-year cycle comes their way Manzo and Perry bring both the one-party system and NH elects 100% males.
Last weekend the New Hampshire L.P. Convention selected 100% males for Prez/VP, 100% males as Presidential Electors and about 91% males for delegates to the Libertarian Party national convention in Austin Texas next May.
Us men should do a better job electing female names within the Libertarian Party.
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PR will elect the larger factions of folks in ALL parties.