[ale] OT: Go Vote!

[fd0man™—The Magical Floppy Man]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 20:11 -0400, Chris Ness wrote:

> 
> Actually, it is one of the better things the founding fathers gave us. And we 
> need it now more than ever. It is the same as the number of Senators and 
> Representatives. It gives some balance to the people who live in places other 
> than California and New York. As it is, candidates don't even campaign - at 
> all - in as many as half the states. People who live in South Dakota for 
> example barely count now, but at least they have 3 electors. Since the 
> passage of the Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution, we are barely the 
> United states of America anymore and are gravitating to being the People's 
> Republic of America. Here in Georgia, we still barely count. Go to a strict 
> plurality, we won't count at all. 
> 


Considering that it seems that the only thing outside of elections that
the voters can do directly with regard to exercising their rights to
vote is to recall an election, I would have to agree with that.  The
only thing that I really don't like about GA is the fact that the voters
do not have the ability to draft and enact or repeal laws on their own,
through a process of either constitutional or statute law initiative or
referendum.  Referendum is actually a very nice ability to have?I have
watched it work many times in Ohio, along with initiative to pass better
laws then the ones repealed by the public.  :)

    ? Mike

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