[Pnp-wg] More issues relating to "proportionality".

[Thomas Leavitt]

I was thinking about the issue of how a state would determine the sympathies 
of Greens at a grassroots level, and the following occured to me:

In states where primary elections are held, does the Green Party have the 
option (legally) of putting "uncommitted" or "NOTA" on the ballot? I know in 
California, that we can't do NOTA, and I'm pretty sure we can't do 
"uncommitted" either. States that don't do government administered primaries 
or that use caucuses would not run into this problem. The result would tend 
to skew the results against folks who prefer "uncommitted" and NOTA 
positions - what if these positions pulled 25-33% of the vote in all other 
states but those with state-administered primary elections? The result could 
hardly be called democratic? Should we encourage states with this type of 
primary to poll their members, and adjust the resulting figures from their 
primary elections?


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