[EM] Poll on voting-systems, to inform voters in upcoming enactment-elections

[robert bristow-johnson]

> On 04/05/2024 7:04 PM EDT KenB <kdbearman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 4/5/2024 4:33 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:
> > right now there is just Democrat and Republican in the U.S. that have 
> > state primaries
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> [KB]  At the moment, Minnesota has three "major" parties.  (We had four 
> until the 2022 election.)  So each of them is entitled by law to be on 
> primary ballots, including the Presidential Nominating Primary we had on 
> Super Tuesday.
> 

Wow.  Even though I lived 20 miles west, and I knew about the DFL, I didn't know that about Minnesota.  Three ballots in your presidential primary.

Vermont *does* have 3 ballots in the August primary (for state office elections), in our Super-Tuesday prez primary, it's just a choice of 2 ballots.

> The continued existence of major party status for the third of them, 
> however, is subject to a MN Supreme Court case that's pending.  It 
> should be decided before the timelines for our August statewide primary.

What's the name of the third party that has a presidential primary in which Minnesota prints ballots for?  I can say for sure that the Vermont Progressive Party does not proffer a candidate for US president.

Wow, again Minnesota beats Vermont in third-party presence.

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