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[ontheway]

Elections in the US are not free despite the commonly held idea of America as a democracy. Every year thousands of candidates for offices at all levels are kept off the ballot by the Democrat and Republican parties who then run unopposed.

The Constitution Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party and independent Ralph Nader are all important enough for nationwide political ballot access, yet they are on the ballot only in 37, 32, 45, and 46 states respectively. They have been kept off by bad laws and corrupt judges including one US Supreme Court judge selected specifically by Bill Clinton after promising to ALWAYS vote AGAINST free elections.

This is worse in the many one party states in the US, where the majority of offices are contested by only one candidate. This is due to bad laws that keep others off the ballot:


Massachusetts: 130 out of 160 State Rep candidates are unopposed

Illinois: 20 out of 39 State Senate candidates are unopposed
and ........... 61 out of 118 State Rep candidates are unopposed

Georgia: 141 out of 180 State Rep candidates are unopposed

Arkansas: 17 out of 18 State Senate candidates are unopposed

Washington State: has a new law that has banned all parties, for offices other than President and VP, except the Ds and Rs, not by name, they call it "top two."


There are more examples. In most of these cases, write in votes are also banned, so there are no alternatives. But, thousands of would-be candidates were not allowed to run due to bad ballot access laws.


At the same time that the Ds and Rs openly conspire to keep opponents off the ballot, when they fail to get their own candidates on the ballot, as they did this year in California, Texas, and Kansas, they just break the law that they enforce against others and put themselves on the ballot.

America needs to wake up to the fact that we do not have free elections. We have fewer candidates per office than they did in the old Soviet Union.

In politics, Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore ... nor Iowa either.

[khyber]

To be fair, the American public seem quite content to keep them so far outside of the political discourse as to label them useless. Political parties have come and gone in the US; there must be a reason for that.

And then remember what the incumenbency rates are.

[ontheway]

Out of 5,773 state legislative races in the US, more than 2,200 are running unopposed! But the Democrats and Republicans conspire to make it hard for people to run for office, and especially for independents and third parties.

[Tiger Beer]

One of the major problems is that the Democrat already represent the LEFT and the Republicans already represent the RIGHT.

SO any third party inherently either takes votes directly away from either the left or the right.

[ontheway]