2006 Mid-Term Elections

[narnee]

I got my ballot late this year due to the incompetency of the Massachusetts Elections Division, but was able to send it back on 20 October due to excellent time management (ie, spending a couple of days not doing much else in my free time) and being known well by the Burlington Town Hall. (This does not explain why it then took me over two weeks

Comments

[wendolen]

Are the Green-Rainbow Party restricted to Massachusetts? They appear to be affiliated with GPUS, but don't really explain their origins on their website.

[narnee]

Yes. I think they were created after Nader did so well in the 2000 Presidential election -- and I think they were formed as a coalition, but don't quote me on that.

They are definitely members of the national party and are affiliated with the international Green Party as a whole.

[kimkali]

hello, left-wing small-l libertarian lesbian and mixed-race disabled bisexual welfare-receiving freelance journalist, how can I not vote for you?

They could have used the tag-line "I am the hundreed village". ~grin~
Tactical voting is... nasty. I've done it. Sometimes you vote for the lesser of two evils, rather than the one good, to stop the one BadBad getting in. To my mind it is one of the greatest flaws of democracy - that votes are compromised by the system itself.

Oh if only they had to state their beliefs, and how they will manifest them, what will guide the formation of policies, the key criteria they will use for decision-making... dammit if politicians had to declare half as much as someone claiming JSA!

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I like politics. I like talking about politics. I like hearing (or reading) knowledgeable people talk (or write) about politics. Like it a lot. Yes.

[aidan_skinner]

Is this a game of 'tactical voting is..'? YAAAAY!

Tactical voting is: an intelligent response to a biased and outmoded electoral system that is one of the few ways that you can actually make your vote count.

Tactical voting is: a moral duty incumbet upon people who live in a constituency where there is a genuine contest to not waste their vote on lesbian-gay-transexual-mixed-species-sponging-immigrant-wastrel-endangered-panda-crocheting-jews-and-allies
as they will never win.

Tactical voting is: not going to be necessary when I vote in a couple of months, hurrah!

Now, if I can only find my party card so I can go to the meeting tonight...

A game a game!

[kimkali]

Tactical voting is... something you encourage people not to do when you are the smallest local party and really want to get some votes.

Tactical voting is... absent when you happen to have a novel surname and appear at the top of the ballot.

Tactical voting is... keeping out the bi-poly-kinky pinko-lefty-subversive egalitarian internationalists since 2002(ish).

Party card! Hahah! Ah... I remember my first meeting. They made me branch chair. B@stards.

[narnee]

Oh if only they had to state their beliefs, and how they will manifest them, what will guide the formation of policies, the key criteria they will use for decision-making...

That is why I so dislike party politics. If people had to run as individuals without a party structure behind them, they would have to state all of those things. (Yes, I know that would cause other problems. I'm trying to figure out the solution, but until then, please let me have my dreams.)

I like hearing (or reading) knowledgeable people talk (or write) about politics.

Even when the tappity-tappity of the keys keep you awake?

[thekumquat]

I posted mine. Although I suspect they snuck more propositions onto the ballot after mailing it to me, as apparently there's an attempt to ban gay marriage in Pennsylvania, and it wasn't on mine.

Sneaky bastards!

[narnee]

Well done! I'm guessing that it's okay to assume I can thank you for your part in the Senate result for Pennsylvania. ;)

I don't think they're allowed to put more propositions on the ballot after a certain date... are you sure it's not limited to certain counties or districts?