In an effort to end “crossover voting” in primary elections, the Tennessee legislature passed a law that mandates that primary election voters be a “bone fide member of and affiliated with” a political party or “declare allegiance” to a party to vote in that party’s primary election. Otherwise, a prosecutable crime has been committed. Ashe v Hargett, m.d., 3:23cv-1256. The case is assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Eli J. Richardson, a Trump appointee. Here is the Complaint.
The law also mandates that warning signs be posted in all polling places informing primary voters of that law.
Tennessee does not have voter registration by party, so voters can select what party’s primary ballot they want.
Two Tennessee citizens who have had past involvement with both the Republican and Democratic parties and their candidates and the League of Women Voters of Tennessee filed suit last week in US District Court challenging the constitutionality of the law as overly vague and, therefore, unconstitutional.
Here is a story on the lawsuit from The Tennessean. It may be behind a paywall for some people.
Also, here is a press release from the LWVTN.
ONE MORE REASON TO ABOLISH PRIMARIES.
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Parties should nominate however they want, as long as they pay for and administer it themselves. Better yet, just vote by party, so candidates are not needed at all. Only the winning party would need to pick officeholders.
NO PROBLEM IF THE TOP HACK IN A WINNING PARTY WAS STALIN / HITLER / MAO / ETC. ???
They wouldn’t be, if government and the electorate were properly limited, with government limited both geographically and in its powers. Cult of personality demagogues are far more like to emerge from personality focused elections, Beijing Biden for example.
ANY SPECIFIC LANGUAGE TO GET *** government and the electorate were properly limited, with government limited both geographically and in its powers *** ???
MILITARY DEFENSE ???
COPS ???
COURTS ???
ROADS ???
ETC ???
Only the first three.
PRIVATE ROAD MONOPOLY SURROUNDING AN AREA =
REASON FOR WAR — BY SURROUNDED FOLKS ???
— AKA DOUGHNUT CASE
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RELATED IN REALITY WITH NATION-STATES WITH NO OCEAN ACCESS.
HOW MANY USA STATES WITH NO BORDER ON AN OCEAN — IE NO *PORTS*. ???
SEE ALSO – USA INTERSTATE COMMERCE CL 1-8-3
The troll moron invents problems where there are none. Plenty of landlocked countries now and in the past. Government road monopoly is no better.