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  Should all 'yes' or all 'no' responses to proposals be an option on the ballot? (search mode)
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Gabu
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« on: November 04, 2006, 02:22:54 AM »

No... while all people under the "D" or "R" column are likely to have something common between them, propositions have no such common adhesion.  If this was enabled, people would word propositions like "Shall we not spend $500 million on a bridge to nowhere?" and would immediately get the guaranteed vote of every libertarian who thinks they're voting against a government expenditure. Tongue
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Gabu
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Posts: 28,386
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E: -4.32, S: -6.52

« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2006, 03:21:32 AM »

No... while all people under the "D" or "R" column are likely to have something common between them, propositions have no such common adhesion.  If this was enabled, people would word propositions like "Shall we not spend $500 million on a bridge to nowhere?" and would immediately get the guaranteed vote of every libertarian who thinks they're voting against a government expenditure. Tongue

You're getting off topic-to say that proposals are badly worded, and I don't think that will ever change.  But-there're plenty of cases that the Democrats, or Republicans are vastly different.  I think that it's stupid to put such blind faith in 20 different candidates only because they're of one party.  A "Yes" or "No" straight proposal vote would serve as a cop-out response for those that do straight party vote, so they wouldn't have to think...  Tongue

Well, I don't support straight-ticket voting either, so I don't have to justify it. Tongue
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