[EL] Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Crites, No. 21-226

[D. A. Holtzman]

Funny to see this (see below) now.

Relevant story:As one of the first eight members of the County of Los 
Angeles Citizens Redistricting Commission, I was involved in choosing 
six more from the remaining pool of qualified applicants.In that pool 
was a Green Party person who I thought might make a good choice.

The governing state law said Commission membership “shall be as 
proportional as possible to the total number of voters who are 
registered with each political party in the County ... or who decline to 
state or do not indicate a party preference.”With GP registration so 
small, I realized that the GP person could be out of the running, which 
I said would be unfair.Intimating that the law might be struck down as 
discriminatory, I managed to get the remaining candidates lumped into 
just three categories for proportionality analysis: Democratic, 
Republican, and “NDR” (Not Democrat/Not Republican).

It helped that the California Constitution requires the state’s original 
independent redistricting commission to look at candidates this way: 
“registered with the largest political party in California[,] registered 
with the second largest political party in California[, or] not 
registered with either of the two largest political parties in 
California based on registration.”

(See page 9 of this report: CRC-Selection-Process-210127-FINAL-rev-2.pdf 
(lacounty.gov) 
<https://redistricting.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/CRC-Selection-Process-210127-FINAL-rev-2.pdf>.)

- david holtzman

On 2/12/2022 4:37 AM, Brown, Mark wrote:
> [...]

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Brown, Mark
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 17, 2021 6:58 AM
> *To:* law-election at department-lists.uci.edu 
> <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
> *Subject:* Libertarian Party of Ohio v. Crites, No. 21-226
> Would anyone be interested in writing or joining an amicus brief in 
> support of certiorari in a challenge to Ohio's ban on small party 
> members serving on its Elections Commission?  The Ohio Elections 
> Commission is much like the FEC, but prohibits party members who are 
> not Republicans or Democrats from serving.  Here is the cert 
> petition.  Amici are due September 15, 2021.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark Brown
>
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