Maine Representative Stanley Short (D-Pittsfield) says he will soon introduce a bill to make it illegal for out-of-state individuals to ask anyone to sign an initiative petition. Maine already has a ban on out-of-state circulators working on initiative petitions, but out-of-state workers are free to ask anyone to sign a petition if that work is being watched by a Maine resident. See this story.
Representative Short and the organization that has asked for this bill may or may not know that bans on out-of-state petitioners have been struck down or enjoined in Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. State officials in Virginia, Illinois and Arizona, after having lost such cases, asked for U.S. Supreme Court review, but in all three instances, the U.S. Supreme Court refused the case.
This is your typical “circle the wagons” psychology that most politicians use to increase their support. It’s “Us against them outsiders!”.
Maine is a great and beautiful state, they’re highly loyal and plurality single-winner districts simply encourages this sort of positioning.
Are you tired of the same division psychology being perpetuated by plurality elections in single-winner districts?
Try pure American proportional representation (PR)! The USA Parliament has been using it for twenty consecutive years and it works great!
We’re able to identify and attract very cool team players:
http://www.usparliament.org
Each State happens to be a sovereign NATION-State for its internal political stuff.
1776 DOI
1777 A.C.
1783 USA-Brit Peace Treaty
1787 Const. Art VII, Art. IV
Too many robot party hack MORONS on SCOTUS to count — since 1789.
Americans have a right to travel throughout the 50 states, and we do not give up our rights when we cross a state line.
HEAR YE, HEar ye!
Announcing a new effort to recruit volunteer full Cabinet Ministers on the global scale.
If you’re interested in working for world unity and peace, why not be elected as a Cabinet Minister and create your own department as part of a team effort?
Believe it or not, that’s exactly what we’re doing TODAY at the International Parliament (IP).
Contact the IP’s Vote Counting Minister now should you wish to work with our democratically elected team. We’ll walk you through the process of electing Cabinet Ministers and this is your chance to learn and participate.
See the Cabinet today and expect to see some new names soon, of whom your name may be one:
http://www.international-parliament.org/cabinet.html
By James Ogle [Republican], Vote Counting Minister
“Building united inter-party coalitions to get things done collaboratively, not unilaterally.”
We at the USA Parliament welcome help from outside our district as long as rules aren’t in place to restrict such activities.
Once the voters decide to erect road blocks then we will abide by such guidelines. Until then, we encourage working across boundaries of nations, states and counties.
SBA Minister and United Coalition candidate for POTUS Benjamin Meiklejohn [Green Independent] wrote:
“You would be happy to know that at the MGIP [Maine Green Independent Party] assembly yesterday, we used your ranked approval method of voting to elect three people from among five candidates to the state committee.”
Me:
That’s pretty tiny, three people.
Additionally, was the a chair elected as a single winner? And why is the committee so small?
We’ve been trying to elect a 1000-member New England Super-state Parliament (ss1) and the microscopic effort by the MIGP is appreciated, but can this be a case of too little too late?
By electing only three of the five names, 40% of the participants were shut out! The policy thinking we really need is “the more the better” and “five heads are smarter than three”.
To clarify, the name of the voting system we’ve been promoting for twenty consecutive years isn’t “ranked approval voting”.
The correct name of this is the “Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, Hagenbach-Bischoff method, ranked choice voting in multi-winner districts only”.
The new International Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Minister:
https://internationalparliamentmofa.wordpress.com/
Please stop spamming this board with announcements for your fake parliament. I enjoy reading the comments here, but not when James Ogle is allowed to post his imaginary government advertisements.
Ditto that!!
OK when out of state money has more rights than an actual person. You gotta love tyrannical rationalization.
The Maine Independent Green Party’s state committee uses a system where three of nine seats are elected for each cycle.
The only way to have pure American proportional representation (PR) in a nine-member district is to elect all nine seats simultaneously, each with a 1/10 (plus one vote) threshold.
That would give them a 90% (plus three vote) guaranteed satisfaction level.
The voting system they use will block our interest groups of less than 25% voting for the state committee and the same three 25% factions will be able to elect the same people year after year.
But but making them proportional, a 9% threshold will be equal for all candidates and will bring more dynamics to each election.
Ditto again!
It’s wonderful that you are getting thoughts from this post as well as from our argument made at this place.