Black people should use the option of write in on the ballot?
918214
Nobody represents the majority of any population.  Do you feel all African Americans should vote for the same person?  Why cant they all look at the issues and have their own opinions without looking at skin color?
228414
There could be, if the cards were played right.\n\nSee, although this is probably not the way it would go, ANY form of race or minority (other than White) could make it into Presidential office if they did the right things. See, here's a theoretical play-by-play:\n\n* The early campaigning days. Running as a black candidate will pick up the "excluded minority supporting" votes as well as blacks with chips on their shoulders (such as Black Panther).\n* The counterarguments. Essentially, if any opponent were to disagree, they could play the minority card, discount the opponent as a "hater" and/or "racist" and rally "diversity and tolerance" voters to their side.\n* The issues. With little room for doubt, a Black candidate would be mostly Liberal, given that Conservatives are stereotyped to be racists. Recall that Kanye West claimed that "George Bush doesn't care about blacks" (or something to that extent).\n\nThis is a defeatist possibility, but entirely possible. I'm sure that in a more realistic situation, a black candidate would run with dignity, honor, and respect for his fellow competitors, regardless of race.
347816
You shouldnt ask people what they are going to vote for, then that would mean that your vote wouldnt be from you. You should vote your yourself, and its not like one vote is going to make the world of difference anyway.
479716
Yes - I find the whole process fascinating.  I also believe that voting is an informed decision making process, so I keep up with local, state and national issues so I can make an informed decision.  How can a person complain about the state of things in their city, state and country if they are not well informed as to what is going on AND they don't vote!  If you don't exercise your right to vote, you shouldn't complain about the state of things.
815557
why we should exercise our right to vote
1091405
I agree with you.  Many states have an initiative process where people are allowed to vote on issues -- my state, California has this and there are always a lot of issues on the ballot for the people to vote on.  There are many issues where the politicians in Washington somehow are out of step with the people as a whole.  A nation-wide initiative process would be a great solution to this.
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1. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have ever had a black person win their primaries, and they have never nominated a black candidate.\n2. American voters are still largely too racist to realistically vote in a black candidate.\n3. The candidates who would garner the most attention (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc.) have probably been too inflammatory for the big parties to even consider nominating. (See 2.)\n\nGive us time, though - things should change someday. It may not happen during this generation, but things should eventually change.
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I share in your emotion but who determines what counts as "informed?"  Biggots used this same  reasoning as an excuse to keep blacks out of the voting booth.  That has left a sour taste in our mouths for any program like you are refering to.\n\nJesse Jackson couldn't know for sure how these people would vote, but he probably knew what odds were. \n\nIt seems like paying a person to vote should be illegal.  One state is considering voting in a tax lottery where one voter after an election will win the jackpot.  I want more voters out there, too, but it seems like this approach would only increase the number of uninformed voters and that doesn't sound good to me!
776202
I don't think so.  If people don't want to vote, why make them?  Will it mean anything if they just pick random people because they don't want to be there?
814200
There is one thing for  sure. There should always be a paper vote. There is no way to verify results without one.  Do not use a ballot with chads, just a plain piece of paper. with a hole punched in it. That eliminates the BS we all suffered during the 2000 election. Next, the ballots should be counted right there,  With representatives from both parties present. Not allowed by law to be moved. And finally, All voters must present a voter I.D. That would resolve most voter fraud.
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We get a black marker and get to connect the arrows (makes you feel like you're back in kindergarten!).  A good question to ask is why do we have so many different ways to vote in the U.S..?  Wouldn't it make sense if we all followed the same process?  And wouldn't it be great if we could all vote via the internet or telephone?  (Surely they can make this a secure system!)   Anyway... thanks for voting!
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First to  tham 153, I accidentally gave you a thumbs down when I meant to push thumbs up.  sorry.  \n\nYes, it is, just as they do this with voting rights activists calling them "conspiracy theorists" "conspiracy nutcases" etc.  If one is afraid they will be embarrassed or thought of like that, they may be less likely to protest, so it is a tactic that works for those who worry what others may think and hurts those who are brave enough to ignore it and protest despite what others may think of them due to the continual use of this term for those seeking to demean people more aware than them or by those worried other may believe the voting rights activists. \n\n Remember what Ghandi said, "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win."  Words like the ones you mention place us at stage two but we are also going into stage three as more wake up to the massive vote fraud and insecurity of electronic voting machines and electronic optical scanners. They will continue a combo of the first three until, god willing, we win and reclaim our democracy for the people. Ghandi's words  hold true for all protests of merit and truth. So using terms like these are nothing new, only the issues and words used to laugh at, or demean you are.  This gives one hope that someday our work as protesters and activists will one day overcome despite the odds against us.  When people ignore such terms and follow their conscience and hearts; hopefully, others will join them in time shaking off apathy and fear.\n\nI remember our republican newspaper the Columbus Dispatch calling congresspeople Dennis Kucinich and Stephanie Tubbs Jones, whose constiuencies contain mamy minorities and poor people, and who spoke out against the massive vote fraud and disenfranchisement in Ohio 2004 election as pulling "adolescent stunts" and "childish tantrums" which definitely demeaned them for actually representing the voters who sent them to US congress and speaking up boldly against wrong.  This also smacked  of racism since Tubbs Jones is black , many of the disenfranchised voters were black, and both congesspeople represent blacks in their districts, and the term "boy" used to be used to demean black adults.\n\nIt is the same as now they keep calling protesters "antiAmerican" and telling them to essentially shut up and leave the country if you don't like it. \n\nIt is the same as putting protesters in freespeech zones like during the democratic convention when protesters where told to go into an enclosure no where within sight or hearing of the convention center, that had standing water in it, only two exit and double razor wire fence around it..peope were afraid to go in it as if they threw tear gas or something in there for some reason, people might panic and one could get trampled. Even the judge was shocked by these atrotius "frespeech zones," but said protesters must still be confined there. The strong symbolism is that, since it looked just like that found at prisons with the double razor barbed wire fences, protesting is a crime..that is how it looked if it was filmed.\n\nWe did not have free speech zones like this until Dubya had his inaugural parade car pelted with eggs and his limo was stopped by massive protests..this apprently ticked him off. You see how they made sure to change that the following inaugural so there were no repeats.  People were afraid to bring signs to the inaugural events in DC as they didn't want to be put blocks away out of ear and vision range.. \n\n Notice how if you wear a t shirt or have a sign that does not show support for Bush or his policies, at any Bush event including the areas the tv cameras will scan and including and extending to mothers of fallen soldiers, you will be dragged out and most likely charged with a crime (as happened to the grieiving mother who was booed for having a shirt about her s
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Yes, because part of the "choice" in a democracy is not to vote for anyone at all. (Although a "none of the above" option on a ballot would suffice for that.)  The problem is that Americans don't believe that they have a duty to vote.
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Write-In Candidates- A candidate, not originally on the ballot, who is in written in by someone. (Significance: Can sway decisions of voters.)\n\nEndorsements- The action of publicly declaring one's personal or group's support of a candidate for elected office. (Example: A person could endorse Wesley Clark for US President in 2008, meaning that he/she intends to support any campaigns Clark may mount for the United States Presidency in the 2008 presidential election.)\n\nAbsentee Ballots- A ballot for voters who are unable to get to their regular polling places on Election Day. (Significance: Allows voters to vote even if they are not able to make it to the polls on Election Day.)
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you need signature from registered voters
1014143
Probably. www.votetoimpeach.org---sign it soon.
765403
it should be written on your voting card that you register for