On April 3, the District of Columbia holds presidential primaries for the Republican, Democratic, and Statehood Green Parties. The only name on the Green Party presidential primary is Jill Stein. However, Roseanne Barr is conducting a write-in campaign. The Green Party has 4,121 registered members in D.C. According to this story, the Barr campaign is using robocalls to ask Green Party registrants to cast a write-in vote for Barr. D.C. has closed presidential primaries.
It is ironic that the D.C. Board of Elections counts write-ins in presidential primaries, but won’t do so for declared write-in candidates for President in the general election. The U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. circuit, will rule soon on whether the D.C. policy of refusing to count write-ins for President for declared presidential write-in candidates in November violates the U.S. Constitution.
Rosanne Barr continues to attract positive attention and coverage for the Green Party. Dr. Jill Stein continues to run a “friendly, collaborative, intelligent” campaign. Well done work by these Green Party ladies.
Pat LaMarche, Green Party, on the TV Show “Deadline.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akCZM3RN_Vw&feature=plcp&context=C4099a59VDvjVQa1PpcFMnJH9HUYJ82Iyxfyo2SRghzW9g_rmgdBU%3D
Richard Winger was on the TV show “Deadline” last week. It should be posted to the Internet soon.
Why only count votes for ‘declared’ write-ins? Why can we not write-in the name of any qualified constituent of an office on a ballot for that office? Why do the elephant and donkey mobs control who we can vote for? How can we call this democracy?
I’m trying to formulate a solution and build support for it :
http://28amen.org/uea_amendment.html
I appreciate any suggestions or help with it.
I think the way to proceed is just to do it. To act as though the above proposal were already the law, to set up our own cardtables outside our polls and to elect a president, vice-president, House and Senate we really want… people from among ourselves who will represent our interests.
Occupy Wall Street.
Good.
Occupy the House Senate and White House.
Better.
Occupy the House Senate and White House and Supreme Court.
The Best.
http://28amen.org/rria_amendment.html
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