which really doesn\'t happen as much as you\'d think, but ok.
then why not allow undecideds/independents in? people known to be from the opposing side would be excluded to get rid of the crappy candidate votes.
maybe i\'m just being too idealistic, but living in a state where party affiliation isn\'t required, i\'m just confused why folks are so dead set for giving the two party system more power? don\'t folks want better candidates and more choices?
which really doesn\'t happen as much as you\'d think, but ok.
then why not allow undecideds/independents in? people known to be from the opposing side would be excluded to get rid of the crappy candidate votes.
maybe i\'m just being too idealistic, but living in a state where party affiliation isn\'t required, i\'m just confused why folks are so dead set for giving the two party system more power? don\'t folks want better candidates and more choices?
i ask again....does the independant want the right to vote in both primaries?
Yes. Yes I do. :thumbsup:
But wait, they wouldn\'t be able to vote in both primaries, just one or the other.
Although, having independents vote in the primaries, would probably take some of the suspense out of the election.
Typically, the independent vote decides the election. If you found out after the primaries that 75% of independents voted for the republican candidate... wouldn\'t that make his election be close to a lock?
well, the easiest solution is a simple one. reps and dems have primaries on seperate days. if you vote for one, your name is taken off the rolls to vote for the other. that way, one vote per person, so that they can vote for their candidate of choice and that\'s it.
the other choice, of course is to let the independents vote for their favorite dem and rep candidate. this opens a whole new slew of issues, and frankly, i don\'t think could be controlled that well. if you let everyone vote in both primaries, the fear becomes loaded votes. however, since so few folks actually vote in the primaries, its not like you\'re gonna have a whole slew of folks coming out of the wood work just to cast impish ballots. everyone would still only get one vote, after all, and in the grand scheme of things, even if there were more reps in one district that all cast kucinich votes, they\'d be balanced out by some other primarily dem district that voted overwhelmingly for romney. unfortunately, though, what this would end up leading to is a race for gotv (get out the vote). this is already a major undertaking on election day for all sides, but without the control of only being able to vote one time, the extra money that would be required to raise to have more resources available to get your people out to the polls twice before the main election would further screw the process and beholden candidates to even more outside parties. HUGE money goes into gotv efforts already. if those efforts got trickled down to \'smaller\' elections, then the fundraising will get completely out of hand (its argueably there already!)
and i think you\'re thinking of undecideds, as opposed to independents. subtle difference, but an important one. the undecideds are the one upon whom many elections hang. since they wouldn\'t have a primary candidate to vote for (or else they\'d be decideds), it would still come down to them giving the final race some spice.
well I for one plan on writing Ronnie Spears in on my ballot. Why you might ask? cause that motherfucker can HOLD IT DOWN
well I for one plan on writing Ronnie Spears in on my ballot. Why you might ask? cause that motherfucker can HOLD IT DOWN
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jking, you want to add a level of complexity to the voting process that I frankly don\'t think the current crop of blue haired poll workers can handle. I worked in the nursing home industry for 5 years, and I\'ve seen sharper folks workin\' a jiggsaw puzzle on the dementia wing then at most polling stations.
:lol: :lol: :lol: very true. and having worked a polling station or two, i wholeheartedly agree. i\'m just talking about something simple like crossing off the name and then turning in the resgistry to the state BoE and let them do some data entry.
or, again, just get rid of party affiliation requirements and anyone can vote in any election. yes there is the potential for misuse, but i\'m telling ya, in reality it works just fine.
when i a went to the table to get my name crossed off, there were two older ladies there with two books of names along with their rulers and red pens. i noticed that my wife had already been there to vote according to the first book as her name was crossed off in red. her name was NOT crossed off in the second book. when i asked why i was told "oh...this is the book that matters. that one doesn\'t really count." um......ok?