Talk:2020 Green Party presidential primaries

Massachusetts Primary
Opening the discussion here to address the issues presented about the MA Green Rainbow Primary. As of now there are two core issues:

1. The Massachusetts Sec of State website recognizes Dario Hunter as the winner of this primary, despite the same website showing No Preference as getting more votes.

2. The Green Rainbow Party recognizes No Preference (NOTA) as the winner of the primary and has allocated their delegates accordingly.

The election results in MA show No Preference (which was on the ballot) as receiving 316 votes versus Hunters 224 and so on. With No Preference receiving the most votes, the state's website is conflicting itself and Massachusetts General Law.

Howie Hawkins' website shows him receiving 1 delegate from Massachusetts, in order for him to receiving a single delegate from MA the No Preference votes had to be counted.

Jp16103 20:09, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Somewhat confusing, but as the Green-Rainbow Pary of MA recognises No Preference as winning the primary we should defer to them. Devonian Wombat (talk) 01:30, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

"The Green Rainbow Party recognizes No Preference (NOTA) as the winner of the primary." No source whatsoever has been provided for this statement. Also the claim that "the state's website is conflicting" is ludicrous. I've read them and the two sources offered here on the talk page lend no support to your argument. The candidate with the highest number of votes is declared the winning candidate. That's what the MA Sec. of State did. You have to be a person - an actual living breathing candidate - to be the winner of a state-run primary race. This is so common sense that it's unbelievable that it has to be explained. The notes already in the article clarify the situation - Hunter was declared the winner by MA Sec. of State, the no preference option had the highest number of votes overall. Those are the facts. 98.221.197.24 (talk) 04:36, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I reached out to the GRP and they confirmed that the delegate selection that we have on our article is correct. The Party State Committee should be posting this in their minutes. Maybe I shouldn't have said the "candidate with the highest number of votes is declared the winning candidate", in Massachusetts you select your preference when voting in primaries. So in this case, the candidate with the most votes was indeed Hunter, however the most preferred ballot option was No Preference. Jp16103 14:13, 19 June 2020 (UTC)