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Ranked Choice Vote ID71).
Ranked Choice VoteBylaws Amendment: GPCA registration deadline for 2016 County Council elections
TypeOpen Ballot
Number of Seats1
Ranked Choice Vote AdministratorMike Feinstein
PhaseClosed
Discussion10/06/2015 - 11/22/2015
Voting11/23/2015 - 11/29/2015
ResultResults
Presens Quorum12 0.5001
Candidates Three months Green twelve months no other party
Three months Green
One month Green
January 1st Green
 

Background

In 2012, the GPCA supported SB 1272 in exchange for a few amendments, including giving the GPCA the ability to set in its state party bylaws, the date by which one must be registered Green in order to run for County Council.

This proposal is sponsored by the Coordinating Committee and presents four options in a ranked choice vote. Each option is explained below. If any option gets 2/3, it will be considered approval for a bylaws amendment (as required by SB 1272) to apply on a one-time only basis for the GPCA 2016 County Council elections. The following language is the existing section:

Section 6-2 Elections

6-2.1 Members shall be elected in each county at each direct primary election. Only those legally registered to vote in California as members of the Green Party are eligible to be elected. Elections shall be for two-year terms, lasting until 30 days after the next direct primary election.

Add the following sentence:

 "6-2.1(a) To be eligible to be elected, one must be registered Green no later than "THE DATE WE APPROVE". (This provision shall only apply to the 2016 County Council elections, after which this text shall be removed from these bylaws).

Reference: Relevant text from AB1272

8001(c) below, which modifies 8001(a) is the text that gives the GPCA the ability to set the date by which one must be registered Green in order to run for County Council.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1272

8001 (a) No declaration of candidacy for a partisan office or for membership on a county central committee shall be filed by a candidate unless (1) at the time of presentation of the declaration and continuously for not less than three months immediately prior to that time, or for as long as he or she has been eligible to register to vote in the state, the candidate is shown by his or her affidavit of registration to be affiliated with the political party the nomination of which he or she seeks, and (2) the candidate has not been registered as affiliated with a qualified political party other than that political party the nomination of which he or she seeks within 12 months, or, in the case of an election governed by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10700) of Part 6 of Division 10, within three months immediately prior to the filing of the declaration.

8001 (c) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a county central committee, subject to the bylaws of the state central committee, may establish the length of time that a candidate for membership on that committee must be shown by his or her affidavit of registration to be affiliated with the political party of that committee, and may establish the length of time that a candidate for membership on that committee must not have been registered as affiliated with a qualified political party other than the political party of that committee.


Candidate Information

Three months Green twelve months no other party
This is the current law. A person would need to be registered Green at least three months before filing their declaration of candidacy for County Council in 2016 - and, would have to also not have been a member of another ballot qualified political party for a full twelve months before filing their declaration of candidacy.

This is the current law for all political parties and will apply to the Green Party in 2016 unless a different option is passed by the Standing General Assembly.

This law was passed in 1961 as part of a law to prevent Democrats and Republicans from losing in the primary and then running as an independent on the general election ballot, and then it got extended to people changing between parties as well. It's origins had nothing to do with central committee elections, but got applied to them at some point. According to Ballot Access News, this law is the most stringent in the United States on pre-registration, together with Colorado, which has the same deadline.

Three months Green
A person would need to be registered Green at least three months before filing their declaration of candidacy for County Council in 2016. It would not matter how they were registered before that three months.

One month Green
A person would need to be registered Green at least one month before filing their declaration of candidacy for County Council in 2016. It would not matter how they were registered before that one month.

January 1st Green
A person would need to be registered Green no later than January 1, 2016 before filing their declaration of candidacy for County Council in 2016. It would not matter how they were registered previously.


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