[JohnyBoy]

How can limiting political parties from the ballot be Constitutional? Time for the DOJ to take the state to court for suppressing civil rights.

[TakebackGOP]

Schwarzenegger could have helped the GOP, but he was a poor governor.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I suppose a Republican can run as a Democrat. Either that or talk like a liberal and then change. Good luck with that one.

[Maine Mariner]

There was no provision in the constitution for political parties. California passed a law that said the top two vote getters in a primary compete in the general election.

[morphing libertarian]

political parties have no rights. The system works the same for both parties. If the repubs can’t score in the primaries they don’t get on the ballot.

[going hot]

I have always wondered the legality of depriving a whole political group, albeit a minority in this state, of the right to vote for a representative from their own party to represent them in local state and federal positions.

If tables were returned, and if there ever was a time only republicans were the two choices, you can imagine how quick the courts would step in and disallow the situation.

[Lurking Libertarian]

How can limiting political parties from the ballot be Constitutional? Time for the DOJ to take the state to court for suppressing civil rights.

No political party is excluded from the ballot. All candidates, of all parties, run in the primary. The top two candidates run in the general election. There are some legislative districts where two Republicans make it through the primary. Statewide, it's often (but not always) that two Democrats are on the November ballot.

[vette6387]

“It will have to get incredibly bad here for this to change, so there’s really no point in wailing about it.”

The GOP agreed to it here. These feckless turds, gave away our voting rights.