Over-Coming Barriers

In parting at least for a while I want to leave you all with these last few facts. There are four barriers that largely contribute to the lack of success of third party candidates. They are the: winner-take all system, electoral college, ballot access laws and debate rules.

Among these barriers are straight ballot voting which allows voters to vote either for all the Democrats or Republicans on a given ticket, eliminating the possibility for casting votes for alternative party candidates.

Discouraging isn’t it??? Some democracy.

Heres one solution that may even solve the ‘spoiler’ problem. An alternative voting method called Range Voting, which allows voters to rank candidates and assigns scores to those candidates.

“Range voting permits voters to express their opinions about any number of candidates (not just one). It eliminates the “spoiler,” “wasted vote,” and “candidate cloning” problems. All candidates compete on a level playing field, whether Democrats, Republicans, Independent, or other. It’s simple enough to run on all of today’s voting machines.”

Also if your interested and want to participate in a truly free democracy, fight to get Ralph Nader or other third party candidates on the ballot in your state. Its the only way that change will ever occur.