"Corruptus in Extremis"
November could see two Democrats running against each other
- In a corrupt back room deal the Democrats and Republicans abolished the primary system allowing only the top two candidates to appear on general election ballots.
- Now as if by "magic" the voters are only allowed to vote for Democrats and Republicans in November. The corrupt big parties have effectively banned all independent candidates and smaller opposition parties from all future general election ballots.
- Other countries who have banned opposition parties include Cuba, North Korea, Iran and China.
(Los Angeles Times) - If elections officials could send just one message to California's 17.2 million registered voters about the U.S. Senate primary in June, it would probably be this: Read the instructions carefully.
"It's not necessarily intuitive on how to properly mark this ballot," said Kammi Foote, registrar of voters for Inyo County. And a mistake could keep a ballot from counting.
On primary day, the race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer will feature 34 candidates. Only four of those candidates have received appreciable support in public polling so far, and five will appear at the first Senate debate Monday night.
But the full field is larger than any single roster of statewide contenders since the colossal list of 135 candidates who ran in the 2003 special election that recalled then-Gov. Gray Davis. (To make the ballot, candidates must pay about $3,500 or collect 10,000 signatures.)
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| A Welcome to Authoritarianism It's Democrat vs. Democrat. In the 6th State Senate District the corrupt "top two" phony election system gave the voters a "choice" of only one political party. There was no Republican on the ballot and all small opposition parties and independent candidates are banned. The corrupt Elites have even made your write-in vote illegal. (More) |
In some ways, the Senate election is so far beyond the capacity of the system that it’s requiring a unique set of solutions. "You're not just trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, you're trying to fit a skyscraper in a round hole," said Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley.
In most races, with a handful of candidates, names appear in a single column on one page of the voting booklet, a clear sign to voters that they should only pick one. But with 34 candidates, the geography of ballot templates tends to favor listing the names in two, side-by-side columns, on facing pages of the voting booklet.
That's where the trouble lies for the Senate race, as voters could mistake the two columns as two distinct races and choose one name from each list. That would result in an "overvote," a ballot cast for two or more candidates, which is thus disqualified.
Some counties have been able to fit all 34 names in a single column on the June ballot, making clear that those candidates are competing against one another. California holds a "top-two" primary that sends only the top two vote-getters, regardless of party, to the Nov. 8 general election ballot.
Los Angeles County's electronic voting machines will require two entire pages of Senate candidates. The first page will include a large red warning icon with instructions to vote for only one candidate.
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.Sample of the old free elections in California
Voters had real choices on their ballots
| California 48th congressional district special election, 2005 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Republican | John Campbell | 41,450 | 44.7% | |
| Democratic | Steve Young | 25,926 | 28.0% | |
| American Independent | Jim Gilchrist | 23,237 | 25.1% | |
| Green | Bea Tiritilli | 1,242 | 1.3% | |
| Libertarian | Bruce Cohen | 880 | 0.9% | |
| Totals | 93,138 | 100.0% | ||
| Voter turnout | % | |||
| Republican hold | ||||
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