While, admittedly, it is her home state, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in August won a Republican Presidential Primary poll that used Ranked Choice Voting to select its winning candidate.
Donald Trump was a candidate in this poll and was eliminated in the vote transfer process.
Here is a story.
The author of this news story surveyed state election officials in all states, asking them all if they might make a decision on how to interpret Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment. Virtually all of them say they are not the right people to adjudicate that.
On September 8, the Party for Socialism & Liberation announced its 2024 national ticket. For president, Claudia De La Cruz; for vice-president, Karina Garcia. See here.
Both candidates meet the constitutional qualifications to hold the offices. Both live in New York state. Thanks to Independent Political Report for the news.
In 2020 the party got 85,623 votes for its national ticket, the highest total in the party’s history. It started running presidential campaigns in 2008.
Maine defines a qualified party as a group with at least 5,000 registrants. Earlier this year No Labels had 6,953 registrants, but on May 11 the Maine Secretary of State sent them all a letter, asking if they really wanted to be members of the No Labels Party.
But four months later, the party still has 6,155 registrants, so it seems No Labels is a qualified party in Maine. See this story.
The Colorado Center Party has achieved qualified party status by having registered 1,000 members. Colorado now has nine qualified parties, the most of any state in the west and the most in its history. Small qualified parties in Colorado generally nominate by convention, not primary.
No other state in the west has ever had that many qualified parties. The definition of a qualified party in Colorado was eased in 1998. Before then, a qualified party was one that had polled 10% for Governor, but Colorado’s minor parties lobbied successfully for the easier definition.
Here is a link to the latest tally of registered voters in Colorado, showing the Colorado Center Party with 1,062 members.
