Tuesday's Election Open Thread
This is it, folks. Your chance to sound off on the problems facing our election systems. One thing i'm really excited about here in Pierce County is Amendment 3, the amendment to the County Charter that will give us Instant Runoff Voting for partisan elections. Can you imagine being allowed to pick more than one candidate per race, and not having to do that stupid Pick-a-Party Primary?
Check it out at YesonThree.com and discuss.
posted by Tahoma Activist @ 6:50 AM
3 Comments:
Vote Yes on Pierce County Amendment 3 if you believe any of the following:
1. Third parties and independents should face a level playing field against the two parties.
2. Campaigns should be based on issues and not personal attacks.
3. It's bad for democracy when a majority of races are uncontested.
4. The Pick-a-Party Primary is a bad system.
5. The two parties have had their chances and need to give others a try.
6. There should be a way to vote for your favorite candidate instead of for the lesser of two evils (to vote out of hope and not fear).
7. High participation in elections is better than low.
8. An 11% rate of spoiled ballots is unacceptable.
9. If only Democrats and Republicans have a voice in the primary then they should pay for it.
10. It would be nice to see Pierce County get positive attention as a national leader in progressive electoral reform.
Amendment 3 would implement Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) and improve our democracy.
Please Vote Yes on 3.
Rich Anderson-Connolly
Thanks for posting, Rich. I totally agree - I think that this Amendment is a tremendous opportunity.
Did you see that Krist Novoselic came to Tacoma this week? He's a big fan of IRV himself.
There is a cool new Flash demo on www.yesonthree.com showing how IRV works. Check it out!
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