Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ea!mwm From: mwm@ea.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Vote NO! Message-ID: <22400015@ea.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 16:21:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ea.22400015 Posted: Fri Sep 21 16:21:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 19:25:51 EDT Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #N:ea:22400015:000:765 Nf-From: ea!mwm Sep 21 15:21:00 1984 Moved from net.misc: /***** ea:net.misc / fortune!hess / 9:13 pm Sep 19, 1984 */ 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. Marty Hess Software Engineering - Graphics UUCP: {sri-unix, amd, hpda, harpo, ihnp4, allegra}!fortune!hess /* ---------- */ Might I suggest you check out the Libertarian platform? One of their standard planks is the "NO" vote. It works like your "NONE OF THE ABOVE," except that if NO should win, the office is left empty.