The California legislature passed AB 1680 on its last
day.  California had been one of 8 states in which
election laws required, or seemed to require,
qualified political parties to identify their
presidential and vice-presidential candidates to state
elections officials before September 2.

In 2004, the Republicans won't officially nominate for
those offices until September 2.  So the national
Republican committee has been doing a very effective
job of lobbying state legislatures, to relax the
deadlines.  They have succeeded everywhere, except in
Illinois.

In six states, the legislatures relaxed the deadlines
to accomodate a national convention as late as Sep. 2.
 However, in California, a different approach was
taken.  AB 1680 does not relax California's late
August deadline for a party to certify the names of
its pres & v-p candidates.  Instead, it provides that
the state chair of the Calif. Republican Party, in
2004 only, will certify the nominees before the
national convention is held, if:  "a candidate for
President has attained a sufficient number of delegate
votes to assure his or her nomination at the
Republican national convention"; and "the candidate
described in par. (1) has identified a person who will
be nominated to run for the office of vice president."

Federal tax dollars are used to pay for the major
party national conventions.  Now this new California
law (it will be a law when Gov. Davis signs it) is
official confirmation (on the part of one state,
anyway) that the national conventions are shams, and
the delegates are ciphers.

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