On February 12, the California Peace & Freedom Party, the California Libertarian Party, and the Alameda County Green Party filed this request for a rehearing in Rubin v Padilla in the State Court of Appeals. This is the lawsuit over whether the top-two system injures voting rights of voters who want to vote for a minor party candidate in the general election.
Ballot Access News
Edited By Richard Winger
The 9th USA Parliament has been promoting the unifying voting system of pure American proportional representation (PR) for twenty consecutive years.
We welcome anyone who would like to coordinate and learn about a unifying voting system known as the Sainte-Lague parliament seat distribution system, Hagnebach-Bischoff method, ranked choice voting (RCV) in multi-winner districts of two or more.
We also have a strong growth in international interest from regions all over the world from Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Russia, Afghanistan, Syria, Brazil, Albania, Canada and we’re always hearing from more and more people who are interested in unity, teamwork and cooperation.
In 2015 we’re conducting elections in a 12-county region, one of 144 population-balanced mini-state parliament districts in the USA and we peak on July 4th 2015.
Check out the new International Parliament’s web site:
http://www.international-parliament.org/
Good that Request for Rehearing has been filed. Hopefully, whatever lawyer represents on this will do a much superior job to what was done originally. Will Richard Winger be allowed to file as a “Friend of the Court” on this?
Sainte-Lague and Hagnebach-Bischoff methods are both good systems, BUT this posting has nothing to do with the rehearing request! Richard, you need to limit the free advertising for the make-believe parliament!
no, even the Green Party of California, which had an amicus brief, is not allowed to file an amicus at this stage. There won’t be any more briefs at this stage unless the Court of Appeals asks for a response from the government and the Independent Voters Project.
For younger folks —
the top 2 court stuff started in WA State in 2006-
a mere NINE years ago.
What day will SCOTUS have the FINAL, FINAL, FINAL hammer opinion about all top 2 primary stuff —
ALL voters nominating [top 2 regimes]
versus
SOME voters in Factions nominating [the other regimes]
—
i.e. END the MORON election law cases by the MORON lawyers involved.
How does Lubin v Panish apply?
Are the plaintiffs conceding that if the primary were in August that Top 2 would be OK?
No. When either side in a case argues that an unfavorable precedent doesn’t apply because the facts are different, that is not a concession that even if the facts were the same, that side would necessarily lose the case.