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But I have a question for you, did you feel well informed about all your options?
Did you have a good understanding of where the candidates stand, from the race for president all the way down to city council or school board?
Did you know the arguments for and against all the amendments or bond issues you had on your ballot?
Would you have liked an unbiased, fair look at the candidates in their own words. A look at where they stand on the issues at hand, one place to look that covers all races and issues on your ballot?
Please, please, please let me know your feelings on this. If your local area has something like that available or not and if you would find such information useful or not.
I don’t care how you voted, only if you felt well informed to make your choices or would like more information as I described.
Thank you so very much in advance and please reblog as well.
But I have a question for you, did you feel well informed about all your options?
Did you have a good understanding of where the candidates stand, from the race for president all the way down to city council or school board?
Did you know the arguments for and against all the amendments or bond issues you had on your ballot?
Would you have liked an unbiased, fair look at the candidates in their own words. A look at where they stand on the issues at hand, one place to look that covers all races and issues on your ballot?
Please, please, please let me know your feelings on this. If your local area has something like that available or not and if you would find such information useful or not.
I don’t care how you voted, only if you felt well informed to make your choices or would like more information as I described.
Thank you so very much in advance and please reblog as well.
I know I have followers who voted to reelect obama and I am honestly very, very curious what issues influenced your decision?
Please give me an honest answer, you may ask me not to respond if you like, I am fine with that. I really would like to hear some answers to this question.
If you don’t want to respond publicly you can drop things in my askbox, anon is always on and acceptable.
But I have a question for you, did you feel well informed about all your options?
Did you have a good understanding of where the candidates stand, from the race for president all the way down to city council or school board?
Did you know the arguments for and against all the amendments or bond issues you had on your ballot?
Would you have liked an unbiased, fair look at the candidates in their own words. A look at where they stand on the issues at hand, one place to look that covers all races and issues on your ballot?
Please, please, please let me know your feelings on this. If your local area has something like that available or not and if you would find such information useful or not.
I don’t care how you voted, only if you felt well informed to make your choices or would like more information as I described.
Thank you so very much in advance and please reblog as well.
Alright, the election is finally behind us and there may be more who are happy about seeing its end than they are happy about who won. Our current election process is a messy one, there is really no doubt about that but there is not any clear path toward improving the process. There is most certainly not any consensus on how things can be fixed. Of course, one nice thing about a personal fantasy is that there is no need for consensus, so my election process is as follows:
Starting off with the only universal election changes to cover elections at all levels, time. Campaigning for any election or elected position is not allowed more than six months before that election. Any violation of this rule would result in limitations being placed on that candidate's campaigning later on in the race. I think this would be a rather popular change among the people and is intended primarily to force as much as possible any person running for reelection or a different office than the one they currently hold to continue to actually perform their current job.
One other change to timing is that lame-duck sessions will not exist. Any elected position will be replaced with the winner of an election within 24 hours of that election's results becoming official. Additionally terms of that position will start counting from that time with the next election scheduled for the proper time after that (i.e. four years later for president and so forth).
Moving on to what I will keep primarily the same, local elections and positions will be handled almost exactly how they currently are, aside from the changes already mentioned. People will be able to run under whatever political party they like for local offices such as city or county positions in a way that would not be fundamentally different from our current system. The differences come about higher up in the government system.
State level government elections will be handled and determined at the state level, individual states can choose to follow either the local model which is similar to our current system or the new federal election model.
And speaking of the federal election model, that is where there will be many differences. First off, all candidates for any federal office must be full citizens of the country. This would limit these elections to people who have gathered certain specific experiences or knowledge that I feel should be required for such positions. In essence it would be a way to be sure that the people governing over the nation are hopefully actually qualified to do so.
Additionally the super citizen designation is required for anyone to be eligible for the offices of president or vice president. This basically holds a more strict requirement of those people who wish to control our government.
Another major difference will be that all federal elections (president, vice president, and house of representatives) will be a simple two horse race (how that will be accomplished will be covered later). However, each race will have a third option on the ballot, 'none of the above'. The winner of each race is the person who receives the most votes (through a modified electoral college system that will be discussed later in the case of president and vice president). In the case that less votes are cast for either candidate than are cast for 'none of the above' two new candidates will run for the office and another election will be held in three months time. Any candidates that lose to 'none of the above' may not reappear on the ballot until after the position has been filled (the only exception being when there are no additional potential candidates who have not already lost to 'none of the above'). In the case of neither candidate achieving more votes than 'none of the above' the current person in office will continue to hold that office until a replacement is successfully elected, with the exception of enough time having gone by to fulfill an additional full regular term in the position, in that case that person will be relieved of duty and the seat will either be vacant or filled by the normal order of procession.
Now, how are these races always controlled to be between only two individuals? Well that is handled because the candidates are selected in an entirely different fashion. Instead of our current system allowing individuals to self identify as candidates for these important offices all eligible citizens are entered into a lottery type system for each office. This system selects (six months prior to the election) two individuals who are then the two candidates for the specified office. In the case of president and vice president these are super citizens from any state and the two offices are elected separately as opposed to our current party ticket system. For the case of the House of Representatives the lottery system includes all citizen residents of the particular region being represented. Current and previous holders of government office are given no special treatment (for or against) in the lottery system.
This system obviously greatly diminishes the power of political parties while relying very heavily on the ideas of citizenship and government being a public service that one performs when their country asks them to do so instead of something that is searched out specifically be career politicians. I'm not sure how you might feel about these aspects but personally I think they would be a major improvement.
And one final note on elections, the truly astute among you may have noticed senate positions not being mentioned in this post about elections and there is a reason for that. The senate and the method of selecting senators will be discussed later but the short answer for now is that they are not elected by the population.
But I have a question for you, did you feel well informed about all your options?
Did you have a good understanding of where the candidates stand, from the race for president all the way down to city council or school board?
Did you know the arguments for and against all the amendments or bond issues you had on your ballot?
Would you have liked an unbiased, fair look at the candidates in their own words. A look at where they stand on the issues at hand, one place to look that covers all races and issues on your ballot?
Please, please, please let me know your feelings on this. If your local area has something like that available or not and if you would find such information useful or not.
I don’t care how you voted, only if you felt well informed to make your choices or would like more information as I described.
Thank you so very much in advance and please reblog as well.
The way I see it this result means one of two things about the American people
1. A large portion of the people of this country believed the lies of the obama campaign and the main stream media without doing any effort themselves to check actual facts
OR
2. The population of this country has largely rejected the ideas and concepts that this country was founded on and thrived on for over 200 years
I believe it is entirely possible that people will one day look back on this night as the day that our republic and true freedom really died. I hope that I am wrong again and I hope that the problem is simply one of a lack of accurate information from those meant to provide accurate information because that is much easier to fix than a population that knowingly selects policies that have failed at every point in history that they have ever been attempted.
I wish I lived in different times, more than I know how to say.
Once again, we have our work cut out for us. We lost this election, but we still live in the greatest country on the planet and we still have many ways to fight for and defend it. My counsel to you tonight: Please, do not be bitter. Do not fall prey to the Beltway blame game. Do not get mired in small things. Do not become vengeful creatures like our political opponents who voted out of spite instead of love of country. We still have boundless blessings to count — and to secure. I remain a proud, unrepentant believer in the American Dream. And I know you do, too. Freedom will endure because we will keep fighting for it. We can’t afford not to, friends.
I know I have followers who voted to reelect obama and I am honestly very, very curious what issues influenced your decision?
Please give me an honest answer, you may ask me not to respond if you like, I am fine with that. I really would like to hear some answers to this question.
If you don't want to respond publicly you can drop things in my askbox, anon is always on and acceptable.
This nation grew to be the most powerful on the planet.
An economic, industrial, military, and cultural shining light.
It was fundamentally different than every nation that came before, it was based on ideas.
There was only ever one way for this great country to falter and die, a truth known well to those who created it. Only from inside could the beacon of freedom, liberty, and greatness be destroyed.
I feel very strongly that the reelection of a president who has passed policies that will destroy this nation economically as well as industrially and militarily; who obviously believes that this nation is more powerful than it should be; who favors this nation's enemies over its allies; and who clearly has no problem blatantly lying to the people and allowing Americans to be killed very well may be something this nation may not be able to survive. And all of that was when he knew he had to face reelection, a tool to possibly keep him in check that will no longer be in place.
I hope I am wrong but I think anyone who loves freedom and this nation and understands society and government has much, much more to fear now than any of those who were so very afraid of Mitt Romney.
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