new option in voting?
Posted: Thu 20 Feb 2014, 04:38:43
Just had a special election here in town to replace a mayor who was forced to resign because he was a pervert.
in the run off election the two candidates were "career" politicians and write in candidates were not allowed.
my big problem is I don't think it matters who is in office because I have lost faith in the political system.
What I'd like is to have a third option! Lets say there was a grass roots movement for a constitutional amendment that stated if 2/3 of the voters vote "no confidence" in an ballot where there were only candidates, bar those two candidates from holding any elected office for 5 years.
Figure the election system is so biased, and the two political parties are so entrenched in US politics, there needs to be some kind of constitutional mechanism to rid the political process of all the dead wood.
so anyone else think the system is so broken there should be some kind of drastic change?
in the run off election the two candidates were "career" politicians and write in candidates were not allowed.
my big problem is I don't think it matters who is in office because I have lost faith in the political system.
What I'd like is to have a third option! Lets say there was a grass roots movement for a constitutional amendment that stated if 2/3 of the voters vote "no confidence" in an ballot where there were only candidates, bar those two candidates from holding any elected office for 5 years.
Figure the election system is so biased, and the two political parties are so entrenched in US politics, there needs to be some kind of constitutional mechanism to rid the political process of all the dead wood.
so anyone else think the system is so broken there should be some kind of drastic change?