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A write-in candidate will never win, so you might as well put Bob Dobbs on there. It's another chance to stick it to the man!
Not for a President so far but in our short history one Senator won as a write in candidate. Strom Thurmond is the first and only so far to win a Senate seat in 1954 as a write-in candidate.
There's also a handful of those elected into Congress or the House as write-in candidates.
So never say anything is not possible, cause it is. The only reason it won't ever happen is people are lazy and stupid when it comes to voting here in America on most cases.
Yea, you're right about that trickykid...people are just lazy. My point(poorly illustrated) was; if more us start choosing the 3rd option, it might make some real changes in the system someday. Currently, a write-in won't win the presidency, but a vote for someone other then a republican or democrat might wake 'em up a bit...
Unfortunately for all of us, "the American 2008 general election" is, and will remain, an example of just how "wrong" a governmental process can be.
The Washington Beltway is chock-full of the sort of people who are attracted, like moths to a flame, to "power for its own sake." People like that have always been attracted to "defense" (and hence, to "war itself") for this reason. (Countries full of people who are scared will spend amount of money to feel safe, and so if that money happens to fall into your pocket, so much the better...)
War, however, takes prodigious amounts of money... far more money than an economy would naturally generate as a natural by-product of its own operations. Therefore, people hit-upon the very convenient notion of "unlimited 'borrowing.'" (And it did not take long for the power-people to seize this as a source of "unlimited 'wealth.'")
These folks, then, are still in power, and they have already hit-upon the idea that paperless voting-machines are the easiest way to be certain that they will remain there. "When you buy a hamburger for lunch, you get a receipt," but when you vote, you cannot. Go Figure.
Anyhow... "in November, they will have their way." King John the Elder will succeed King George the Lesser. There will be absolutely no way to independently verify that the votes were not cast in precisely the way the computers "said" they were... even though no computer professional in his-or-her right mind would ever construct such a computer system. If need be, the House of Representatives will "decide." (And if they don't, the Supreme Court will.)
The rest of it is obvious. A leadership is "elected" that carries on the leadership of the present day. World War III is dutifully declared, and many tens of thousands of men and women in the age of 18 to 42 are drafted into the "national service" and ... die.
This carries on for the next 12 to 16 years. By that time, I am probably dead-in-the-ground (along with most of the men and women who did this to you...) and it is your problem. "In Flanders' Fields, row on row..."
Sorry to break the news. But if it is any consolation, you're not the first group of citizens to have been forced to deal with this.
Last edited by sundialsvcs; 10-09-2008 at 02:10 PM..
We haven't got electronic voting machines over here yet, but we've had plenty of cases of cheating with postal votes. Dead people voting, five times as many people registered at an address than actually live there, etc.
Paris looks better than Obama or McCain getting out of cars.
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"King John the Elder will succeed King George the Lesser. There will be absolutely no way to independently verify that the votes were not cast in precisely the way the computers "said" they were... even though no computer professional in his-or-her right mind would ever construct such a computer system. If need be, the House of Representatives will "decide." (And if they don't, the Supreme Court will.)"
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There will be no Dynasty for Republicans. Wedge politics divides but it does not conquer.
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