We have all heard the story of " The Emperor's New Clothes"
I have not spoken to anyone that has experience reading bills that have
read the proposed "Count My Vote" law that doesn't agree that the
Legislature would have to fix it. They even admitted that.
It
contradicts itself. I would have thought since they are spending over
$3/4 Million on this they would have got a real "bill".
http://fairelectionsutah.blogspot.com/2013/11/below-is-my-non-legal-analysis-of.html
The
bunch of people that they had say the "bill" was constitutional, only
said that based on one primary argument: Could the state force the
parties to change their system based on the proposed "bill"?
They
(Count My Vote) don't seem to want people to read it. Just sign it and vote on it
later. The purpose of getting that many people to sign it is to make
sure, since they are bypassing the legislature, that the "bill" gets
vetted. We get ticked at congress if they don't read what they are
voting on.
CMV intentionally made it hard for anyone to come to
the public hearings, and almost no one would have come if we didn't
invite them. They then had a chance to amend their proposed law and they
didn't.
Now they hope some legislator can bail them out and
change the law, but they can't back off because, I believe, they have
told the education community that if CMV passes, they will use it to
change the legislature so taxes are raised and education gets more
money.
They have told others, I have heard, that CMV will allow
certain candidates that "can't" win under the current system, to win,
and those are helping to pull in the big bucks for them so their
candidates get elected in 2016.
98% of all the money raised,
$851,201.50 this year and before comes in contributions of $2,500 or
more, much of it $25,000. 92% of all money raised came from 34 donors. 7
of 8 corporations donating to Count My Vote's PIC have not filed with
the state as required by state law.
And Count My Vote is worried about 20,000 state and county delegates
from the different parties that are elected by 150,000 voters? Perhaps we should worry about the 34
that are doing most of the funding of Count My Vote?
Fair Elections Utah Working to improve, but not gut, our neighborhood election caucus system. The Caucus System in Utah is the best way to make sure a grass roots process can work over large amounts of money. It is the only way someone with $100,000 can go against someone with $2,000,000 in election funds. We had a system that did NOT favor the incumbent, wealthy or famous. This was a good thing. SB 54 made things bad. The New Count My Vote is worse.
