The Year the Americans Realized Elections Are Rigged

PoliticalNick

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Tecumsehsbones said:
Don't be silly. We've had lots of independent candidates through the years. Just none of 'em ever got elected to the White House (they've been elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate).

Any time you feel like taking a crack at our electoral system, taxslave, just whisper to yourself "Justin Trudeau." Then shut your mouth.
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Abe Lincoln was technically a 3rd party candidate as the GOP did not exist before him.

Tecumsehsbones said:
I couldn't agree more. I got a radical solution: remove all donation limits. Ban all donations from non-natural persons. Ban all donations from natural persons who are not citizens or legal residents of the United States. Impose draconian penalties, i.e., if a forbidden donation is proven against the victor in an election, then she is automatically out and the second-place finisher is automatically in.

That'd get the machines to police their donations carefully. Unfortunately, it would increase the amount of harassing litigation, but hey, I'm a lawyer, so it's hard for me to argue against harassing litigation.
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I couldn't agree more with those measure but I would also add that you can only donate to candidates running within the riding in which you live.

Then impose a law that all candidates run as independents. Make political parties illegal. That should force all candidates to concern themselves with the wishes and the will of their constituents as they are supposed to.
 
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mentalfloss said:
I'm just saying that if a representative wins solely because they have more resources available for campaigns or advertising, then that's antithetical to democracy.

I can say that in Canada, this isn't as much of a problem but in the U.S. it might be.
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You can say it but it isn't true. Justine is about to reinstate the per/vote subsidy which guarantees the party in power more funding than anyone else.

He also want to change from FPTP to a system that favors the liberals who promote themselves as centerist while being more socialist than the communists.
 
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In the end democrats shot themselves in the foot by rigging it against burn's
 
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Locutus said:
this election will mirror what happened up here.

the prog-left media will back and push their man/woman with the lefty agenda and talking points.

the mouthbreathing public that consumes the 'news' and infotainment will believe whatever is put on their devices or on their tv sets.

it's the media vs the contender.

good luck.

but I hope like fukk trump succeeds and washes all their faces in a snowbank.

the days of the media party must be purged.
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HaHa. That is exactly how Drumpft got elected. Mouthbreathers that mindlessly consume whatever is put on their devices.
What a hoot. You nailed it.

XD
 
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It couldn't take a genius to figure this out. The community I reside in has frequently had more votes cast in it's local elections than there are registered voters on the Registrar of Voters records. Every election get certified too.
 
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