so would you see these survey questions when you go in to vote, or would you know what they were before going in to vote? if its on the ballot and you only see the questions when you go to vote, i would hope they would have either a computer where you can look at those sites or have information there about the questions so people could read them.
if you have them before hand and can look up the info at home thats good to.
i think its a good idea, cause it can allow peoples opinions to he heard on a larger scale then say just in polls (which i personally think are worthless) the only thing i would want as far as this goes would be to have access to the information on the survey questions.
Yeah, ballots are already available ahead of timeattutleApril 12 2004, 10:51:05 UTC
Ballots are already available ahead of time, and many organizations put out information about pros and cons on things like the general obligation bonds and everything else.
The league of women voters goes a really good job of this, including candidate questions on various issues.
I'd think there would be a lot of information available ahead of time if there were going to be something like 4-6 survey questions on the ballot. It might actually increase voter turnout as well.
Re: Suggestions?attutleApril 12 2004, 11:20:07 UTC
Okay, that's certainly a weakness, and I saw it while I was making the initial post as well, but suppose a bunch of different people started adding this to just their local city/county/state, all with the same wording. So you suppose it could be used to raise awareness of something like instant runoff voting before it was compromised?
Ballot access.buddhafiddleApril 12 2004, 15:08:02 UTC
How about, instead of having ballot questions by political party, have survey questions added with some threshold of signatures? I agree that putting them by political party would limit the number in a nice way, but many states (like Pennsylvania) have a 25% threshold for major party status, so ballot access would be out of the question for other parties.
Ballot initiatives have shown the most progressive (in the general sense, not meaning merely "most left-wing") ideas; some of these have increased the scope of government (class size mandates), some have decreased it (marijuana law restrictions), but all of them have shown an inclination of voters different from what is seen in the election.
For example, California voters approve almost every drug war relaxation initiative they are offered on the ballot, but have unreconstructed drug warriors to every major office every time they are given the opportunity. Senate rights-clipping drug warrior number one, Dianne Feinstein, won one of her biggest victories against two anti-drug-
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if you have them before hand and can look up the info at home thats good to.
i think its a good idea, cause it can allow peoples opinions to he heard on a larger scale then say just in polls (which i personally think are worthless) the only thing i would want as far as this goes would be to have access to the information on the survey questions.
if that makes sense, i'm still waking up
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The league of women voters goes a really good job of this, including candidate questions on various issues.
I'd think there would be a lot of information available ahead of time if there were going to be something like 4-6 survey questions on the ballot. It might actually increase voter turnout as well.
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So, sadly, no idea how to get around that.
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Ballot initiatives have shown the most progressive (in the general sense, not meaning merely "most left-wing") ideas; some of these have increased the scope of government (class size mandates), some have decreased it (marijuana law restrictions), but all of them have shown an inclination of voters different from what is seen in the election.
For example, California voters approve almost every drug war relaxation initiative they are offered on the ballot, but have unreconstructed drug warriors to every major office every time they are given the opportunity. Senate rights-clipping drug warrior number one, Dianne Feinstein, won one of her biggest victories against two anti-drug- ( ... )
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