Thursday, August 05, 2004

The Un-Democrats

from The Philadelphia Inquirer
...Many signatures of legitimate voters could be tossed out on technicalities as zealous Democrats look for any excuse to neutralize the Nader threat. Isn't it nice to know our elected officials are doing their part to block third-party candidates from participating in democracy? We wouldn't want those pesky gadflies to muck up a free and open election, after all.

2 comments:

Sheryl said...

Telling Nader supporters that they can't be on the ballot is a bit like telling a rebelling teenager that if he's not home by 9:30PM he'll be in "big trouble." A strategic blunder on a good day--they should know better.

Sheryl said...

Hey Ryan,

Here's something I hadn't considered in terms of encouraging and discouraging voting:

http://www.ballot.org/news/News_Articles/June2004/BISC_DNC.html