Why did the Green Party nominate you in a meeting instead of in an open primary election as the Republicans did? Is that backroom politics?
The Green Party at present is small, and it is just not practical to work through a primary. Our nominating meeting for Charlevoix County was November 8. We notified everyone we knew of, including the print media, weeks in advance through emails and postcards. I was nominated in district 1. When the Green Party grows, we will have primaries in Michigan, as it does today in California. • How can the Green Party ever hope to succeed in a two-party winner-take-all system? In Charlevoix County the second party is the Green Party. As noted above, the Democrats have no county-wide candidates. More generally, even if the Greens get a toehold here, it will still be difficult regionally and nationally. What is needed is structural change, whereby a majority candidate can be selected. This can be done with instant runoff voting (IRV). Under IRV, in an election like this one where three or more candidates may be on the ballot, voters would mark down their first, second, and third choices. If no c
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