Lawsuit: Prop. 14 violates California minor party voters' rights

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 11/22/11 | Torey Van Oot

[SmithL]

A group of voters from minor political parties is challenging California's new top-two primary system in the courts, arguing that the election process established under Proposition 14 is unconstitutional.

A lawsuit filed Monday in Alameda Superior Court claims that the new system, which sends only the two candidates who get the most votes in the primary, regardless of political party affiliation, to the general election, "severely burdens voter, candidate and party associational rights."

"By limiting access to the general election ballot, Prop. 14 effectively bars small political parties, their candidates, and their members from effective political association, precisely at the moment when the highest number of voters are engaged in the electoral process," the complaint reads.

[GeronL]

That was likely the point. Also in amny places in Kalipornia the top 2 could easily be Democrats.

[San Jacinto]

So from now on it’s going to be the Democrat vs. the Socialist Worker Party of the Unido Latino de Mexico condidate in the general election?

[Arthalion]

Mathematically, it’s hard to imagine a scenario where two Democrats could win the most votes in the primary, and lose the general to a Republican. If both of the top primary candidates are liberals, that district is a lost cause and a waste of conservative campaign money.

[Fiji Hill]

...In many places in California, the top 2 could easily be Democrats.

In many areas, the top two could also be Republicans. The "other" California--Orange and San Diego Counties as well as points inland--are as "red" as a tail light.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Proposition 14, brought to you by Abel “Judas” Maldonado (RINO), his reward for his vote on the 2009 California budget.

[7MMmag]

"...as well as points inland--are as "red" as a tail light.

The way the lefty/liberal know-it-all idiots think of us, reminds me of this one;

Hey you don't know me but you don't like me
You say you care less how I feel
But how many of you that sit and judge me
Have walked the streets of Bakersfield?

But more and more everyday, sadly enough it's coming to;

I Sang Dixie

He said, "Listen to me, son, while you still can Run back home to that Southern land
Don't you see what life here has done to me?"
Then he closed those old blue eyes
And fell limp against my side
No more pain, and now he's safe back home in Dixie


I sang Dixie, as he died
People just walked on by, as I cried...