On January 19, the California Senate unanimously passed AB 1413, which, among other things, eliminates write-in space from November ballots for Congress and partisan state office. The bill now goes to the Assembly, because when it passed the Assembly last year, it didn’t have the same provisions.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Wow, the California State Senate is trying to make things even worse for minor party and independent candidates than Prop 14 has already made it.
One more attack on 14th Amdt, Sec. 2.
Gee — why did the horrific Civil WAR happen ???
Democracy NOW — regardless of ALL of the EVIL gerrymander DEVIL monarchs in New Age legislative bodies — the same sort of MONSTERS that were in the Brit Parliament in 1776.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
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The AAAF does not realize that two of the instances where a California candidate was elected as a write-in candidate were in special elections in which there were no ballots with candidate names.
In the senate case, the write-in elected candidate had already served one year as an appointed senator, and was also elected for a full 6-year term as an on-ballot candidate on the same day he was elected as a write-in candidate to serve the final two months of the term. The Senate was not in session, and given the effort to get from California to Washington at the time (1946) may not have even been east of the Mississippi during the time. If he was, it was because he had traveled after Christmas to be at the Capitol for the opening of the 80th Congress.
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No planes in 1946 left over from World War II ???
#6 But why would you bother travelling back to DC if the Senate was not in session? The session in 1946 ended on August 2.
If you were seeking election in California, you’d want to be in California. After winning election, why would you go back to Washington before January?