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LetMyPeopleVote

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19. Your hatred of political parties doomed your concept
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 02:08 PM
Oct 2022

Political parties are important part of the system and rigging a system to favor non-affiliated persons makes no sense and would never be adopted in the real world. The California top two system sort of ignores political parties by allowing the top two candidates to advance to the general election but this does not really matter since California has largely become a Blue state. Many elections involve two Democratic party members running against each other.

The Alaska top four system with rank choice voting is interesting. The defeat of Sarah Palin amused me and Palin is worried about the general election.

Political parties are part of the system, and these parties are NOT going to go away. Your concept "of the initial computerized selection system according to correspondence of the candidates' views with the outcome of the surveys" makes no sense to me and there are too many games. Let the voters decide and attempts to lessen the influence of political parties make no sense to me

Again, in Texas county and municipal elections used to be non-partisan. That has changed and now in Harris County we have a TFG supporter backed by a ton of GOP donor money going after Lina Hidalgo. These non-partisan races are now very partisan.

I have been involved in the Democratic Party in Texas for a very long time. We are making progress and I have training next week for voter protection efforts. I do not believe in getting rid of or lessening the influence of political parties.

Have fun

I'm afraid that these days unaffiliated means republican Walleye Sep 2022 #1
For unaffilieated we need to develop how the candidates are picked Huin Sep 2022 #4
How would requiring 1/3rd of the House reps per state be "free agents" encourage compromise FreepFryer Sep 2022 #2
These candidates when elected have a mandate to those who elected them Huin Sep 2022 #5
so a survey company will set the political agenda ? FreepFryer Sep 2022 #8
Destroying the two party system is not a way to fix anything LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #3
Who is talking about destroying a two-party system? Huin Sep 2022 #6
Are you kidding? The premise of your plan is to destroy the two party system LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #7
I need to disagree. I do not want to destroy but strengthen our two party system. Huin Sep 2022 #12
I am amused that you do not understand the concepts LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #15
BTW, your silly plan would kill the Congressional Black Caucus LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #9
The "Why" of this should be explained Huin Sep 2022 #10
Your plan would eliminate minority majority congressional districts LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #11
But not the ability to run for the same seat without affiliation. Huin Sep 2022 #13
Which would never work in the real world LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #14
So we part and go our ways Huin Sep 2022 #16
You have clearly not interacted with many lawyers. LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 #17
Thank you for your reply Huin Oct 2022 #18
Your hatred of political parties doomed your concept LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2022 #19
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