On February 7, Virginia House Bill 1414 died in the House Privileges & Elections Committee. It would have provided for party labels on general election ballots for candidates for partisan local office. Virginia is unique in leaving party labels off general election ballots for local partisan elections. Parties have nominees but that information is kept off the ballot.
Before 2000, Virginia even banned party labels for congressional and state office elections.
Mr. Winger: It seems we are living in anti-democratic times in which ballot access is becoming harder. Am I right or wrong on this?
VA – ROTTED HOME OF GERRYMANDER ROT IN 1618 –
GERRYMANDER PLANTATIONS ALONG OLDE JAMES RIVER.
NEXT — SLAVES INTO VA IN 1619.
RACISM ONGOING.
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PR IN ALL REGIMES
Ballot access was mostly getting easier from 1975 til 2020, but since then it has been getting harder.
Ballot access in New York is an example of it getting more difficult.
MINORITY RULE ELECTION OF 1992 CLINTON SET THINGS REALLY OFF.
NOW MAJOR MASSING OF SUPER LEFT/RIGHT CONTROL FREAK MONARCHS/OLIGARCHS —
BOTH TRYING TO GET PERMANENT RIGGED CONTROL.
Ballot access should be very simple, but not necessarily easy: a party with a precinct chair who represents the party in between elections to his neighbors and shows up to lead/organize his party’s corner on election night should have its votes count in that precinct. Other parties would not be eligible to have party corners. Elections should be conducted like caucuses or town meetings, with the men gathering one night a year while their wives, children and servants are at home.
In line with Eu v San Francisco, given that political parties are legally considered private associations, every qualified party should be regarded as owning its ballot status, and entitled to determine who may run for its nomination, the actual method used to conduct that nomination, whether by primary or convention, or some other method determined by its own rules, the methods by which its candidates obtain ballot position in its own primaries, and the method of voting used in any primary.
Parties should own their ballot access by having a precinct chair/representative who represents that party to the men of that precinct in between elections, has a prominent precinct party chair sign in front of their home or business, and shows up in person on election night to marshal the party’s forces.