Posted by Emme on June 1, 2004, at 10:18:12
In reply to Re: Green party ect., posted by TexasChic on May 26, 2004, at 13:17:36
> Your voice isn't unheard, I'm right there with you! The problem we have is with our voting system. Its set up so that we have no choice but to vote either Dem or Rep. There are other ways to vote that would allow a third party to have a chance. The problem is both parties benefit from keeping it the way it is. The ones with the power make the decisions, and they will never back something that would take away that power. I don't know what it will take to change that.
>Yes, we could use a change in the basic voting structure. What would be better is if we could specify more than one candidate and rank-order them. That way, if choice number 1 gets too few votes and is out of the running, then our vote transfers to our second choice. That way Nader votes would have defaulted over to Gore votes. Or something along those lines.
I seem to recall that one state has such a system for state elections, but I can't recall which state and it's been a while, so I'm not sure if I described it exactly correctly. But it was a system that would avoid the kind of problem we had with Nader votes in the previous election.
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