Am 31 Jul 17  11:11:28 schrob BOB ACKLEY an GERHARD STRANGAR zum Thema 


BA> The two major parties do everything they can to shut alternative
BA> candidates out of elections.

Isn't offering the choice between Trump and Clinton the best thing they could
do to help other candidates?

BA> The two major parties also will not allow a "None of these candidates"
BA> option on the ballots.

What for? Put your mark in between both candidates and you get counted as
invalid vote. But that doesn't change anything.

>> If you don't like the current situation and you choose to do nothing
BA> about it,
>> you're lazy or dumb.
BA> That group would include people who don't register to vote - well over
BA> half of the eligible population; and of the somewhat less than half that
BA> does register only about half actually bother to vote.

Are trying to say that only 25% of those who are allowed to vote actually do?
Because the numbers I read are 23.8% of all adults voted for Trump and 23.9% of
all adults voted for Clinton.

BA> It's not that the
BA> people are stupid or lazy, it's that they won't vote for any of the
BA> candidates presented.

If half of the population doesn't vote, because they don't like the candidates,
why don't they get someone else on the ballot?
Germany is electing a new (or more probably the same) federal parliament in
September and to get on that ballot, you need 200 supporters from your
electoral ward if you run as an independent candidate or around 2000 per state
if you run as a list of people. Supporters means they have to fill out a form
(and one form only) and sign it and you take it to the local authorities to get
it verified and then present them and your program to the election supervisor.
And while this certainly isn't fun, it's absolutely feasable for anyone who can
get more than 0.5% of the votes. We're going to see up to 33 lists on the
ballots.




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