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Strategic Liberty CoalitionPlaceholder data. Every candidate on this site is fictional. Scores demonstrate the method. They are not live election advice.
Highest-power issue: Emergency orders and peaceful trade. Current recommendation: Endorse Priya Raman.
The governor signs or vetoes statutes, issues and withdraws executive orders, appoints agency heads, and proposes the budget. The office does not write a criminal penalty on its own.
Placeholder. A small state, a real emergency pen, a misdemeanor for staying open.
Conduct 5 and penalty severity 3 (Misdemeanor, up to a year) blend 60/40 into harm 4. Power 60 = 4 × 3 × 5.
The governor writes the order. In a small state that fact is the race. Population does not enter the harm score. Reach does, and it is scored a 3 because fewer people live under it.
Placeholder scenario. Included so the governor's low office impact on a legislative felony is visible beside a high-impact emergency order.
Conduct 5 and penalty severity 4 (Felony imprisonment) blend 60/40 into harm 5. Power 20 = 5 × 2 × 2.
The governor can veto and pardon. The felony's text belongs to the legislature. Office impact is a 2. A harsh statute in the wrong office does not jump the ranking by rhetoric.
Endorse Priya Raman
Placeholder. A favored reformer against a long-shot enforcement slate.
Formula: Endorse Priya Raman (The lead clears the toss-up gap.)
Fictional candidate
Limited-government placeholder · Winnability 5 · Score 91
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. The race is not seriously in doubt, and the emergency record is a full cut.
Fictional candidate
Enforcement-first placeholder · Winnability 2 · Score -49
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. Would keep the order and the felony.
Raman is the strategic vote in the plain sense: she would end the order, she is very likely to win, and Ward would expand the penalty. The possession felony is on the card so nobody confuses a governor's pardon with a repeal. Raman is fictional.
The legislature drafts the statute, sets the penalty and the mental state, funds the agencies, and can sunset an emergency power. On most of these issues it holds the text.
Placeholder. The same penalty, in the office that can rewrite it.
Conduct 5 and penalty severity 2 (License, property, or forfeiture) blend 60/40 into harm 4. Power 60 = 4 × 3 × 5.
The legislature can require a conviction. That is the repair.
Endorse Ivy Calder
Placeholder chamber.
Formula: Endorse Ivy Calder (The lead clears the toss-up gap.)
Fictional candidate
Limited-government placeholder · Winnability 4 · Score 69
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. Would require a conviction before forfeiture.
Fictional candidate
Enforcement-first placeholder · Winnability 3 · Score -30
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. Would keep convictionless forfeiture.
Calder is favored and would require a conviction. Voight would not. The gap is clear. Both are fictional placeholders.
Judges rule on warrants, constitutional limits, and how a penalty is applied. They do not rewrite a clear statute, and this scorecard does not ask them to.
Placeholder. Identical mild records. The chart should show a tie, and the call should say so.
Conduct 4 and penalty severity 4 (Felony imprisonment) blend 60/40 into harm 4. Power 40 = 4 × 2 × 5.
Judges decide admissibility. Two slates with the same record are not a choice.
Toss-up
Placeholder tie.
Formula: Toss-up — The lead sits inside the toss-up gap. Leading score: Nora Keene. (The lead sits inside the toss-up gap.)
Fictional candidate
Cautious-reform placeholder · Winnability 3 · Score 20
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. A mild warrant record.
Fictional candidate
Cautious-reform placeholder · Winnability 3 · Score 20
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. The same mild record.
Keene and Duarte match. The formula ties them. Editors will not pick a name to fill the silence. Fictional slates.
The attorney general decides appeals, civil enforcement, and often whether the state will defend a statute. Charging power over ordinary crimes may sit with county attorneys. The entry says so when that split matters.
Placeholder. A smaller docket. The office still chooses which cases to pursue.
Conduct 5 and penalty severity 2 (License, property, or forfeiture) blend 60/40 into harm 4. Power 32 = 4 × 2 × 4.
Settlements and appeals are the attorney general's share. Reach is scored lower because the docket is small.
Endorse Celia Brooks
Placeholder. A smaller forfeiture docket, still a real choice.
Formula: Endorse Celia Brooks (The lead clears the toss-up gap.)
Fictional candidate
Limited-government placeholder · Winnability 3 · Score 32
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. Would stop filing convictionless cases.
Fictional candidate
Enforcement-first placeholder · Winnability 3 · Score -32
Fictional placeholder. Not a real person. Would expand filings.
Equal odds, opposite directions, and the docket is this office's to file or not. Editors endorse Brooks. She is fictional.