Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!fortune!hess From: hess@fortune.UUCP (Marty Hess) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.politics Subject: A vote for "nobody" this November Message-ID: <4297@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 19:13:05 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.4297 Posted: Wed Sep 19 19:13:05 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 08:09:20 EDT Organization: The End of the Rainbox (sic) Lines: 35 <... and a chicken in every garage!> Well, I've been waiting for some ELSE to make the following suggestion, but I guess I'll have to do it. Let me ask you this, are you happy with the choices you're given on election day? Each year we seem to be faced with a "lesser of two evils" choice. I find this unsatisfying, don't you? How about this as an alternative: For every position up for election, you are given the list of candidates AND ONE OTHER CHOICE: "NONE OF THE ABOVE". (And I don't want to hear about Sister Mary Boom-Boom either.) If "NONE OF THE ABOVE" wins the election, we do it over (within some kind of limits), and the previous candidates are DISALLOWED. There's a big push this year to get people to go out and vote. I think people aren't voting because they don't like the choices that they're being given. You want to see votes? Let people choose who they WANT in office. I'd really like to see someone pick up the ball on this, and persue it realistically. There's got to be a way to make something like this work. This has been an unpaid, political announcement. The opinions presented above do not represent those of any sane individual, and certainly have nothing whatsoever to do with the attitudes of anyone around me. Please continue this discussion in "net.politics". As usual, flames to /dev/blackhole . -- Marty Hess Software Engineering - Graphics UUCP: {sri-unix, amd, hpda, harpo, ihnp4, allegra}!fortune!hess DDD: Co.: (415) 595-8444 Me direct: (415) 594-2565 USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Pkwy, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 P.S. Anyone outside of the USA got any comments on this?