The Peace & Freedom Party is currently in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, asking that Peta Lindsay be restored to the party’s presidential primary ballot. The primary is June 5. Both sides in the lawsuit, Peace & Freedom Party v Bowen, have agreed to expedite the lawsuit. Assuming the judge agrees, all the briefs will be in by April 20. Oral argument is somewhat likely to be on April 24. UPDATE: the oral argument will be April 26 at 9 a.m.
The issue is whether the Secretary of State is exceeding her authority by telling the Peace & Freedom Party that it may not list one of its four desired presidential candidates on the party primary ballot. The other three candidates, who will be on that ballot for certain, are Stephen Durham, Rocky Anderson, and Stewart Alexander. The Secretary of State originally wouldn’t accept Stephen Durham either, but she changed her mind about him and decided to accept him.
The Peace & Freedom Party has been having presidential primaries starting in 1972, and never before has any California Secretary of State attempted to tell the party that its list of presidential primary candidates should be altered. The Peace & Freedom Party was on the ballot in 1968 but didn’t have a presidential primary that year.
Actually, the first primary for Peace and Freedom Party was 1970 and the first Presidential primary was 1972 and no Secretary of State has ever attempted to remove a candidate submitted by the party leadership through any of their State Chairpersons from the list of generally recognized candidates for the June ballot.
The 8th USA Parliament Election of 2012 is striving for 1250 names, but we’re only at 529 so far.
You all are so far behind! 😉
http://www.usparliament.org/votehere.php
BTW, nominations are closed, so new names will have to win as write-ins. I know you’re not for that, but we do use the Hagenbach-Bischott method. We’re not for the single-winner district power-grabbers, we’re for a 1000-member district team.
Correction, the “Hagenbach-Bischoff” method.
See you in ANOTHER seventeen years, when you finally “get it”. We were founded in 1995.
Thanks, C.T. I fixed the post. I had forgotten about the 1972 presidential primary. It’s the only PFP presidential primary that had only one candidate on the ballot (Dr. Spock).
Our vote counting rules for using the Hagenbach-Bischoff system, rule #4 (as well as rule #3 for IRV), was written by mathematician and Peace and Freedom member Mike Ossipoff [Peace and Freedom] in 1995.
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