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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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October 30, 2007 6:10 AM
How to Improve the Voting System
James Sample of the Brennan Center for Justice takes a look at how to improve our voting systems. Check it out here.
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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PFFF !!! LOL !!!
And what about the two parties along with the media "allies" engaging in SUPERDIRTY tricks to keep 3rd parties off the ballots through phony polling, frivolous lawsuits, unwarrented arrests, etc ... not to mention keeping voters from knowing who all are the candidates running along with the media that knowingly focuses on Democrats and Republicans only ?!?!? Back in 2004, thanks to lawyers working hard to force Nader off the ballot in 30 states rather than working to fight the voting fraud where it counted the most, 3rd parties barely mustered 1% of the total popular vote !!!! I know that they were afraid Nader would expose their weakness but the Party did a "perfect" job of it by it wrong moves, another perfect reason to NEVER EVER trust the Democrats on anything just like the GOP !
Or how about the arrests of Green Party candidate Cobb and Libertarian Party candidate Badnarik ?!?!? Even better, back in the 90s, Ross Perot was shut off from debating Clinton and Dole, two of the DULLEST candidates in 1996, by the corporate NAZI media for fear that Perot would once again punch a SUPERHOLE in the two-party rot. And even when Perot got airtime, it was only during very late night hours.
Come on, David. The only way to improve the voting system is to first allow 3rd parties the same chances as the Democrats and Republicans on the ballots. That will bring out less alienated voters and finally this country can be on the path to REAL DEMOCRACY !
I agree this stuff is all minimal in comparison to the voter suppression of the Democratic Party. It looks like Nader is taking the DLC to court, we'll have to see how that works. That case involves DLC operatives intentionally crossing out / adding bad information, so the entire list is thrown out.
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