should we elimiate ballots?

[minionofmidas]

What happens when people who have horrible handwriting cast a ballot and it's questionable as to who they were voting for?  Especially if two candidates in the race have similar names?

The person who appointed the count supervisor wins.

[minionofmidas]

Zbigniew Brzhinski for President!

...or however you spell his name...

I think it's Brzezinski.

[minionofmidas]

Obviously, because we'd rather keep power firmly collected in our hands and because we favor stability in the system. There is a reason why there hasn't been a strong third party movement recently in America.

Define "recent". The 1990s are pretty recent to me...

[minionofmidas]

By third party movement I mean they actually won a number of state house, state senate, Senate, and House seats. Pulling 19% and 8% in two elections is hardly a success.

One in five votes for president not a success? Lmao here. Perot just got royally screwed by fptp.
And yes, Reform was always lacking in ticket depth, even in 96. You're right on that. Of course, question is why? gerrymandering springs to mind, so does the sheer amount of money in us politics, so does people voting for the incumbent as a sort of default ... which is something about the us that I'll probably never get my head around...

[minionofmidas]

Hmmm...they also keep records of your transactions for quite a while. I don't want VISA to know how I voted, thank you very much.
There are horrible ideas, very horrible ideas, and internet voting.