Voting Reforms Needed: 7-Point Plan for the US
How to Reform the US Voting Process: A 7-Point Plan
Do we ever need serious electoral reform in the US (all those in parliamentary democracies can take a moment to laugh at us)! Here’s my reform platform:
[This actually happened both in Florida, 2000–Katherine Harris–and Ohio, 2004–Kenneth Blackwell. In both cases, the Secretary of State, in charge of the election, also happened to be the Bush state co-chair. In both cases, the question of who actually won that state will be forever under a cloud. and in both cases, the state was the crucial determinant of victory or defeat nationally. and in both cases, millions of people do not accept the “result” as valid–myself included–and therefore grant no legitimacy to the Bush II presidency.]
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[…] written about this before; here’s my seven-point plan for US electoral reform, published in this space on December 17, […]
Great idea, Skip. It would be a lot easier to build cohesiveness in parties that weren’t trying to be all things to everyone and succeed only in being nothing to anyone.
Great idea, Skip. It would be a lot easier to build cohesiveness in parties that weren’t trying to be all things to everyone and succeed only in being nothing to anyone.
Completely right on, Shel! Some folks advocate the elimination of the Electoral College, I’m agnostic on that point – but I do agree that for now it should at least be taken down to the district-by-district level.
There’s one more thing I’d suggest: the Democratic and Republican parties need to be dismantled. One could make about four or five coherent and viable parties out of the two of them – that would be a great help towards making the present “third parties” (Greens, Libertarians, etc.) better able to compete.
Completely right on, Shel! Some folks advocate the elimination of the Electoral College, I’m agnostic on that point – but I do agree that for now it should at least be taken down to the district-by-district level.
There’s one more thing I’d suggest: the Democratic and Republican parties need to be dismantled. One could make about four or five coherent and viable parties out of the two of them – that would be a great help towards making the present “third parties” (Greens, Libertarians, etc.) better able to compete.