Texas HB 4416

[NeverMarryAStripper 21781]

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Texas Representative Mayes Middleton (R-Wallisville) has introduced HB 4416. It raises the vote test for a party to remain on the ballot from 5% for any statewide office to 10%.

Currently, the only states with 10% vote tests are New Jersey and Virginia. The median vote test of the 50 states is 2%. Texas also lets parties stay on if they got 2% for Governor, and HB 4416 does not alter that test.

If there are any participants in this forum whose political views do not lie on one extreme or the other of the political spectrum, you should urge your state legislators to oppose this bill.  I don't think government of, by, and for the ruling political parties was the intent of the people who founded this country.

[DanRydell 799]

Mayes Middleton is a tremendous piece of shit.

[bolverk 29399]

3 hours ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

 If there are any participants in this forum whose political views do not lie on one extreme or the other of the political spectrum, you should urge your state legislators to oppose this bill.  I don't think government of, by, and for the ruling political parties was the intent of the people who founded this country.

To go further, the founders were actually opposed to the creation of political parties, to begin with.