Utah will hold a special U.S. House election on November 21 to fill the vacancy in the Second District. Filing closed on June 14. Five parties will have nominees: Republican, Democratic, United Utah, Libertarian, and Constitution. Also there are two independent candidates, each of whom needed 500 signatures. See this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.
Parties in which there are more than a single candidate are Republican, Democratic, and United Utah. Those parties will hold conventions in the next few weeks to choose their nominees. If the convention process doesn’t choose a nominee, then special primaries will be held on September 5.
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@AZ,
That would require a change to the US Constitution.
The constitution can be changed. More importantly, it’s a way to enshrine the establishment even more than now. They’ll rank each other highly, and most less well connected or known candidates won’t even know who to rank or how. Candidates who believe all other candidates are equally terrible, a common reason to run, wouldn’t even be able to. Voters wouldn’t know how to rank a bunch of names they don’t know. So, either they would not vote at all, or they’d vote for the best known and connected and financed people, or they’d rank names they don’t know randomly. If AZ or anyone thinks any such scheme will cause very many people to spend way more time researching a whole bunch of people they never heard of just because they made the ballot, you are living in dreamworld.
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The vast majority for the worse.
@AZ,
Wouldn’t the substitute have an incentive to have the office holder removed from office?
Chuck is right. It’s a cockamamie system. People and candidates are not suddenly going to want to spend a whole lot more time researching. They will just ignore everyone except the best known, best connected, best financed candidates.
Parties, or factions, or whatever you want to call them will operate, just less above board. The smaller ones won’t have the resources to recruit or promote their candidates or let the public know who they are. Most people won’t research who they are, they will just ignore them.
The party label on the ballot is more necessary for smaller parties, less well known or well financed or well connected candidates, and voters who don’t have a lot of time to research candidates. If you want to concentrate more power in the hands of the biggest, best financed, most organized parties, their best known, most well off, and most well connected candidates, and voters with the most time and interest in researching candidates (or who are part of one of the biggest cliques), take party labels off the ballot, or render them useless by letting whatever candidate use whichever one they want. If you want to level the playing field a bit, do the opposite.