[lbo-talk] Re: failure to communicate?

[frank scott]

(ballot proposal) Proposition 62 provides that in elections for Congress
and state office, all voters would receive the same ballot in the June
primary. The ballot would contain all the candidates for those offices,
regardless of party. Then, only the top two vote-getters would appear on
the November ballot.

"In most countries it is called run off elections and makes sense - it
first
gives people a chance to express their preference and then gives them a
second chance if their first choice does not face any real chance of
being
elected..."

62 would not invite a runoff, but merely drop all minor party candidates
after the primary and leave the general election to the two corporate
parties...that "makes sense" to the republican and democratic parties
which will benefit if this thing passes, but makes no sense at all to
anyone who supports -at least in theory if not in practice - democratic
choice, and not simply democratic party politics...

fs