Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Voting System

This is my idea for election reform.

Like George Washington warned us of in his farewell address, The political parties are getting ridiculously skewed away from the welfare of the state.

We must allow the people to elect the best candidates, not the least bad that's in a party that can win.

Our voting system should allow us to place a list, of maybe 4 people, or some technical limit that is greater than the number of candidates listed on the ballet. that we think would do a good job in that role.

The person with the most votes, wins. This way, we don't have to have primaries... If we like 1 republican 1 democrat, and 2 other parties... we can vote for all of them!..

Our primaries sometimes eliminate the best candidates! We are forced to vote within a party!
We don't have to have primaries where the republican that would appeal to democrats looses, and the democrat that appeals to the republican looses

We end up with a mess.

... I have more comments about our current state of affairs, however, I don't want to mix my more formal ideas with my musings, and I don't want to piss people off. Nobody reads this now, but maybe, just maybe someday..

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