Category Archives: Voting[ October 25, 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]
Remember the primary debacle this past spring? Remember all the times that qualified, worthy candidates were shut out of an election because they stood outside the major political parties? Remember your frustration after Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004?
With our current electoral system, voters often must choose between the ‘lesser of two evils,’ instead [...]
David Sedaris, on undecided voters:
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken [...]
As the Columbian wrote yesterday, Martin Hash removed himself from the Democratic primary race for the 17th Legislative District State Senator position currently held by Don Benton.
It is unfortunate that the “top two” primary system sidetracked his candidacy and thereby diminished the democratic process. This is certainly not how democracy is supposed to work. [...]
I don’t believe we are practicing any recognizable form of democracy in this country and here is just another example.
Let me say at the outset that I don’t blame anyone for this mess besides perhaps a justice system that is more concerned about promoting a “dog eat dog” world than administering wise jurisprudence.
I am a [...]
Local AM radio wing-nut Victoria Taft proposed a dirty voting trick and KATU is only too happy to help catapult the propaganda:
local conservative talk show host is pulling out the big guns by urging Republicans around Oregon to commit party treason and switch sides, at least for a day.
For the May primary, KPAM’s Victoria Taft [...]
Stolen votes
Here is what the candidates should be speaking up about instead of worrying about Obama’s youth and Clinton’s emotions (both of them). Is anyone concerned that their votes may not count?
The Constitution of South Carolina states, “the ballots shall not be counted in secret.” Computers count in secret!
This is the election integrity [...]
Sorry for the dearth of posts - L. and I have both been laid low by migraines this week, mine probably from the stress of knowing that in addition to my ultrapale skin and block-shaped head, I have also spun into his genetic code this damnable affliction. There is nothing worse on this earth [...]
This article sways me, unlike the author’s intent, to vote no on SJR8212. The author appears to have a significant vested interest in passing this amendment. And he is a lobbyist to boot. The author should have hired someone else to do his bidding. Notice he doesn’t bother to mention why [...]
RAW correspondant Ron Rosenbaum on why we shouldn’t be paranoid, yet should be very wary of National Security Presidential Directive 51, a poorly defined contingency plan to retain a Constitutional government in the aftermath of an undetermined disaster.
It’s so secret that even Homeland Security committee members can’t look at the details:
Who Will Rule Us After [...]
Thanks to Be-Think.org
Part 1
Part 2
If this isn't enough of this old wise guy, there is a seven part interview of Gore Vidal at The Real News Network.
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