Maybe if we held our elections on the weekends, like so many European countries, we’d get a higher turnout than the disgraceful 40% we usually get. Sort of makes our pro-democracy check thumping appear a little lame to other countries, when we can’t even get out the vote. 3 cheers for the French for coming out in droves!
did I write check thumping? I meant CHEST thumping...
The fact that a racist lunatic like Charles Barron can be elected to the City Council is disturbing enough.
We don't need to encourage more of his supporters to engage in participatory democracy, trust me.
I also gotta wonder about the limited of polls, and having even multi-day voting. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.
Bush won twice cause of two awful candidates he faced both times, lets face it. The dems and Bush were going back and forth poll wise and he got lucky that he hit the high points during both elections.