OT Georgia GOP: Allowing People To Vote Will Be Devastating to Republicans

[TorturedBlazerFan]

 

[barfo]

https://psmag.com/news/how-states-are-blocking-a-third-party-run
https://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/rpt/2013-R-0229.htm
Republican and Democrat judges decided this.

DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN MAJOR AND MINOR PARTIES

The Court has held that a state can seek to encourage political stability and help preserve the two-party system. States may enact “reasonable elections regulations that may, in practice, favor the traditional two parties” and “that temper the destabilizing effects of party-shattering and excessive factionalism” (Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party, 520 U.S. 351, 367 (1997)). States may not prevent third parties from forming, but they “need not remove all of the many hurdles third parties face in the American political arena” (Id. at 366 & n.10).

Other Cases

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held that a California law requiring political parties to nominate candidates by direct primary rather than convention did not violate the Libertarian Party's freedom of association. The court concluded that the state's interest in enhancing the democratic character of the election process overrode whatever interest the party had in designing its own rules for candidate nomination (Lightfoot v. Eu, 964 F.2d 865 (9th Cir. 1992)).

On the other hand, the Supreme Court has invalidated restrictions so substantial that it was “virtually impossible” for new or minor parties to gain access to the ballot. The Ohio law that was struck down in the case required parties to obtain 15% of the vote in the last gubernatorial election, among other severely restrictive requirements, to gain ballot access. Ohio argued that its law served various compelling interests, including political compromise and stability, electoral fairness and integrity, and an orderly election process. But the Court responded that “the Ohio system does not merely favor a 'two-party system'; it favors two particular parties—the Republicans and the Democrats—and in effect tends to give them a complete monopoly” (Williams v. Rhodes, 393 U.S. 23, 24, 32 (1968)).

Well, if you want to get into court decisions we disagree with, I have a very very long list myself.

I know of third party candidates who are running that information is easy to come by, and I haven't chosen which one I'm going to vote for yet.

Ok. You can keep it a secret if you want. Didn't mean to pry.

barfo

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Well, if you want to get into court decisions we disagree with, I have a very very long list myself.



Ok. You can keep it a secret if you want. Didn't mean to pry.

barfo

lol, well I liked Gary Johnson, so far Jacob Hornberger is winning the Libertarian primaries. If he wins I'll probably vote for him.

 

[CupWizier]

If nobody knew who I was and we created some bogus resume and I got hired in Stotts' place, only the players would know I had no experience. Give me a few weeks of studying so I knew more than basic zone defense and pick and roll and shit like that and they probably wouldn't know.

Give Stotts a text book on my job or most of your jobs and he'd be screwed. He couldn't do it for shit.

Trump could be an NBA coach tomorrow.

LMFAO! Is this more of your satire?

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Well, if you want to get into court decisions we disagree with, I have a very very long list myself.



Ok. You can keep it a secret if you want. Didn't mean to pry.

barfo

My point is though that Republican and Democratic judges and the parties do in fact spend more time than you alluded too keeping competition at bay.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

LMFAO! Is this more of your satire?

Lol. No. I've coached basketball before.

There isn't jack shit in basketball that you couldn't learn from a book in a few weeks.

His job is telling the players when they get to play and calling timeouts (which he is shitty at by the way) and structuring a basic system.

I can tell Damian and CJ to shoot

 

[CupWizier]

Lol. No. I've coached basketball before.

There isn't jack shit in basketball that you couldn't learn from a book in a few weeks.

His job is telling the players when they get to play and calling timeouts (which he is shitty at by the way) and structuring a basic system.

I can tell Damian and CJ to shoot

Put your peewee basketball coaching experience on a resume and send it in. I'm sure the Blazer brass would like a good laugh. I coached 3.5 years of youth soccer and the team only lost one game in those 3 seasons. I think I'm ready to manage an Englsih Premier League team.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Put your peewee basketball coaching experience on a resume and send it in. I'm sure the Blazer brass would like a good laugh. I coached 3.5 years of youth soccer and the team only lost one game in those 3 seasons. I think I'm ready to manage an Englsih Premier League team.

You're closer to being able to do that than you are my job. Like most things you speak of, you have no idea what I do.

50 emojis don't make you seem funnier in case you were wondering.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Can I have the GM job too? I can gurantee you I would have drafted Giannis Antetokounmpo instead of a B minus Dame clone.

 

[barfo]

You're closer to being able to do that than you are my job. Like most things you speak of, you have no idea what I do.

So you are not a bodyman?

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So you are not a bodyman?

barfo

Bodyman5000 and more!

 

[barfo]

Bodyman5000 and more!

only 1 more, though.

barfo

 

[CupWizier]

You're closer to being able to do that than you are my job. Like most things you speak of, you have no idea what I do.

50 emojis don't make you seem funnier in case you were wondering.

Math challenged? So please let us all know what level of basketball you coached? Curious minds want to know

 

[crandc]

If nobody knew who I was and we created some bogus resume and I got hired in Stotts' place, only the players would know I had no experience. Give me a few weeks of studying so I knew more than basic zone defense and pick and roll and shit like that and they probably wouldn't know.

Give Stotts a text book on my job or most of your jobs and he'd be screwed. He couldn't do it for shit.

Trump could be an NBA coach tomorrow.

You sound suspiciously like Jared Kushner.

 

[julius]

If nobody knew who I was and we created some bogus resume and I got hired in Stotts' place, only the players would know I had no experience. Give me a few weeks of studying so I knew more than basic zone defense and pick and roll and shit like that and they probably wouldn't know.

Give Stotts a text book on my job or most of your jobs and he'd be screwed. He couldn't do it for shit.

Trump could be an NBA coach tomorrow.

Can't tell if you're being serious or not...because it'd be like me saying "I can change the oil in my car, I've replaced a clutch and I know how to do the water pump, I could totally be a mechanic".

 

[Lanny]

I'd rather take the position that Democrats and Republicans do everything they can to suppress any competition. That doesn't seem to bother people though.

That's kind of off the topic, isn't it?

 

[yankeesince59]

Let the people have what they want. Anyone who can legally vote should be encouraged.

Yup...and that was my point in my first post.

 

[Hobbesarable]

lol, well I liked Gary Johnson, so far Jacob Hornberger is winning the Libertarian primaries. If he wins I'll probably vote for him.

@TorturedBlazerFan , you and I are very much aligned in our political views.

I tend to be conservative on economic issues while liberal on personal freedom. I voted for Gary Johnson last election and I think I will also vote for Jacob Hornberger.

 

[Minstrel]

@TorturedBlazerFan , you and I are very much aligned in our political views.

I tend to be conservative on economic issues while liberal on personal freedom. I voted for Gary Johnson last election and I think I will also vote for Jacob Hornberger.

You're both also Green Bay Packers fans.

You're both the same person, using two accounts, aren't you?

 

[Hobbesarable]

You're both also Green Bay Packers fans.

You're both the same person, using two accounts, aren't you?

Yeah and the secret cabal accusations also have merit. Hahaha

 

[yankeesince59]

People don't know what they don't know...ergo, in their minds the things they don't know don't exist.

...and so rather than engaging in coherent conversation with others, they instead simply sit in the back row eating popcorn and giggling without bringing anything to the table, yet still somehow view themselves as compelling.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Yeah and the secret cabal accusations also have merit. Hahaha

Im the dominant personality though.

 

[Hobbesarable]

People don't know what they don't know...ergo, in their minds the things they don't know don't exist.

...and so rather than engaging in coherent conversation with others, they instead simply sit in the back row eating popcorn and giggling without bringing anything to the table, yet still somehow view themselves as compelling.

It is a waste of time conversing with you.

 

[yankeesince59]

Im the dominant personality though.

This is true...and you wear it so well.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

This is true...and you wear it so well.

 

[yankeesince59]

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lol...but I gotta ask, which one is you ?...it's OK, you can tell me.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

lol...but I gotta ask, which one is you ?...it's OK, you can tell me.

Both.

 

[yankeesince59]

Both.

ooooooooooh, kinky !

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

ooooooooooh, kinky !

Well thats the only way my power fantasy works.

 

[yankeesince59]

It is a waste of time conversing with you.

...why Sir, I don't recall you conversing, you said it yourself. ..."I'm only here to and ".