Sponsor of California Ballot Access Bill Plans for an Assembly Vote on Thursday, May 15

California Assemblymember Richard Gordon expects the Assembly to vote on AB 2351 on Thursday, May 15. This is the bill to re-define “political party”. It moves the vote test (2% for any statewide office, in a midterm year) from the general election to the primary election. It also eases the alternate registration test for a party to be ballot-qualified, from 1% of the last gubernatorial vote (currently 103,004 registrants) to .33% of the total number of registered voters (currently 58,280 registrants).


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  1. Why doesn’t he eliminate the vote test, and change the registration test to some reasonable number such as 100 or 200?

    What is State of California’s interest in restricting candidates to expressing a preference for more popular parties?

    Crowded ballots? Voter confusion because they might be exposed to less popular ideas? That’s the way we’ve always done it? Sabotage of the Open Primary?

    Just because a candidate prefers a party, does not mean the party prefers him. We don’t know affirmatively whether the Republican Party prefers any candidates in this primary. And we know that the American Independent party and Peace&Freedom parties prefer some candidates who chose not to prefer them.

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