Dems keep up fight to keep third party candidates off ballots
Dems keep up fight to keep third party candidates off ballots
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Dems keep up fight to keep third party candidates off ballots
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It would be great to get to a point where we could have ranked choice, but that’s not going to happen for this election.
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Each state has to do it themselves. The constitution explicitly gives each state the responsibility to organize some sort of system to distribute their electoral college votes. Any attempt to do it by the federal government would be unconstitutional and could only be done with an amendment.
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No one’s said anything about silencing democracy besides you.
Even the article says:
State law requires those who nominate electors for the Green Party convention to be state officers, legislature members and judges, among others. Candidates for state congress can also participate. The complaint notes that, because the party does not have anyone who qualifies as a nominator, the Green Party cannot legally name a slate of electors.
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It’s the states laws that they’ve created, right?
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I’m kind of confused about what you’re arguing for or against anymore.
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It seems like you’re blaming me for a state’s law.
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We should start breaking the law now for the election?
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If the law says candidate cannot appear, then candidate should not appear. We have the right to rule ourselves, to make our own decisions on how our system will work. We are not required to have or keep any system or method.
If we chose to change our law to be ruled by monarchy, then that is exactly what we should get. Then there'd be no candidates.
Democracy does not supercede the law. To the contrary, we only have democracy because the law says so. We only have protection of life, of property, because the law says so. 200 years ago black people were property, because the law said so. If we do not like a law, it is our responsibility to change it, while we still possess that ability.
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Thats the point.
Control the choices. Control the outcome. That lets the donor class dictate the scope of debate. Set the lines of acceptance in politics.
There's only one way to fix this. Get rid of Citizens United. Nothing will be fixed until that happens. We'll just circle the drain until the next ego driven fascist wins the Whitehouse and ends the American experiment for good and all.
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