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How
To Take Back America by Thom Hartmann --Mar 26, 2003The Republicans well
understand - and carefully use - the fact that in the American electoral system
a third-party candidate will always harm the major-party candidate with whom
s/he is most closely aligned. The Australians solved this problem in the last
decade by instituting nationwide instant run-off voting (IRV), a system that is
making inroads in communities across the United States. There are also efforts
to reform our electoral system along the lines of other democratic nations,
instituting proportional representation systems such as first proposed by John
Stuart Mill in 1861 and now adopted by virtually every democracy in the world
except the US, Australia, Greece, the United Kingdom, and Canada. more
The Electoral
College and how it works (or doesn't as the case may be)
Instant
Runoff Voting It is all coming down to election reform. go here for a
really simple explaination of Instant Runoff Voting click
here to Go there now
The Center for Voting and
Democracy Very good site on voting
ABBA
Cadabra By Liz Langley, AlterNet June 5, 2003
My new political party, ABBA (Anyone But Bush Again), is an SOS to
those who didn't want George W. Bush the first time, which was most of us, and
those who don't want an encore. All you have to do is one thing: vote for the
one guy running against Bush who has a shot of winning. And if anyone tries to
Naderize this thing, we lob stuff at them -- old fruit, chairs, opened paint
cans -- until they quit.
I'd like to get hold of everyone who didn't vote at all in 2000 because
"there's no real difference between Bush and Gore" and clap them like
erasers. more
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