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On 1/25/25 5:38 PM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:44:53 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> Very interesting. There is a libertarian party in sweden. I voted for
>>> them once or twice in my youth, I think they got 3000 and 3800 votes or
>>> so in those elections, and then I never bothered since they never showed
>>> much interest in actually growing, but was more a kind of discussion
>>> club.
>>
>> The LP in the US tends to be a mixed bag of nuts that are extremely naive
>> about their fellow Amurricans. They manage to maintain ballot access in
>> this state.
>>
>> That's another impediment to third parties. Ballot access is determined
>> state by state and often is a Catch 22. If you received a certain number
>> of votes you will be on the next ballot. If you have never been on the
>> ballot, start collecting signatures and hope for the best.
>>
> 
> There is some obscure rule in sweden that in theory would allow 10 000 
> coordinated people to move to the same region and get a seat in the 
> parliament. I always wonder why no one ever tried it.

   It can be done in the USA as well, indeed the rapid
   rise of the 'southern red states' is a more general
   example. As to why it's rarely so deliberate, well,
   people don't like to pull up stakes and move.