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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 04 Nov 2014, 19:54 ---
--- Quote from: Patrick on 04 Nov 2014, 17:35 ---Rather than vote for the shitbag incumbent sole candidate for mayor, I wrote in Adolf Hitler and voted for him instead. They're both racists and xenophobes, but at least Hitler supported aerospace tech development and surface transportation infrastructure.
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Ha! That's one of the things that almost made me *not* vote today (not a shitty mayor), but the whole California "top-two" primary system. I can't even write in a protest vote when I don't want to vote (which is nearly always) for a (R)eprobate or (D)umbass for partisan offices. The only way to register dissatisfaction now is to stay the fuck home and be considered "apathetic".
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Orrrrrrr vote for a third party and at least make your dissatisfaction with the current system heard.
hedgie:
Can't any more. Only the top-two candidates in the primary are allowed into the GE. No third-parties, no write-ins.
GarandMarine:
...what.
Well. California.
cesium133:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 04 Nov 2014, 20:40 ---Can't any more. Only the top-two candidates in the primary are allowed into the GE. No third-parties, no write-ins.
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Same here in Oklahoma. Third party candidates and write-ins aren't allowed.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 04 Nov 2014, 21:11 ---...what.
Well. California.
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I think that when the percentage of the state choosing to be non-partisan or "decline to state" the major parties started pissing themselves a bit, and got the idiot voters to pass that stupid law. Can't let us plebs have a true choice, after all, especially when the people have essentially become fed-up with them. Honestly, I think it's high time to scrap the primary system altogether, and make the parties choose their candidates at their own expense (ought to save the taxpayer a bit of money that could be better spent elsewhere).
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 04 Nov 2014, 21:13 ---
Same here in Oklahoma. Third party candidates and write-ins aren't allowed.
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Only the candidates anointed by those already in power are permissible.
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