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| Authored by: blaisepascal on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 01:53 PM EDT |
The electoral reform I'd like to see is the end of
nominations by political party. I feel that political
parties have no place on the ballot; they should be free to
endorse anyone they want, but I shouldn't see "Republican
Party" next to Romney's name on the ballot this November.
If it's illegal electioneering for me to put up a
"Republicans for Romney" sign within 100 feet of a polling
place (which it is), it should be illegal for the ballot to
say the same thing.
But even with that reform, I'd still be faced with a ballot
with up to a dozen individual races, each with up to a dozen
separate candidates (or more, the 2000 Florida Presidential
race had 13 distinct candidates).
The most complicated races I found in the 2008 New York
State General Elections were the races for Supreme Court
judges (in NYS, the Supreme Courts are the lowest tier in
the State court system, with the Appellate courts above
them). In most of those races, you had multiple people
running for multiple open seats, so in the 10th district 4
judges were elected out of 7 candidates.
Candidates appearing on multiple lines due to party
endorsements complicates matters, even eliminating that
doesn't make them simple to tally.
So how do other countries deal with the complicated ballot
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- Voting machines - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, August 26 2012 @ 03:41 PM EDT
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