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Yes, You Can...Make a Difference: Help Turn Out "Decline-to-State" Voters [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 1:22 PM on February 3, 2008.


A California voter registered as "Decline-to-State" wants to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate: hilarity ensues.
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A California voter registered as "Decline-to-State" wants to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate: hilarity ensues. Yes, you can... vote for President! If you are a DTS voter, just ask for a "Democratic Party ballot." Or go to www.couragecampaign.org/vote for more info!

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Hmmm...interesting...
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Posted by: ABetterFuture on Feb 3, 2008 8:39 PM   
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...and informative. If I still lived in Sand Dog, I'd have put good use to the information.

As it stands, I don't think I can vote in my state's (LA) primary, because I belong to neither the party of money, nor the party of power.

The cynical side of me tells me these are silly rules for a silly event, meant to give the electorate the impression of a choice between a pro-war, fiscally ignorant candidate and a pro-war, fiscally ignorant candidate.

I hope that's the worst case scenario, and not the status quo in perpetuity. :(

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Any colour you like, so long as its Black?
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Posted by: Cathyc on Feb 4, 2008 3:07 AM   
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If I understood this video correctly, its an advert for the Democratic Party, right?

American style democracy - don't ya just love it!!!

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Mean Spirited
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Posted by: shortpantz on Feb 4, 2008 5:48 AM   
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Treating people like crap and demeaning them is not going to encourage the DTS voter to ask for a Democratic ballot. Your going to drive them to the dark side where the Republicans are going to treat them like they matter; get their vote and then treat them like dirt.

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Also, the text is misleading or misinformed.
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Posted by: ABetterFuture on Feb 4, 2008 9:34 PM   
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Yes, you can... vote for President!

Of course you can. Nobody is telling anybody that they can't vote president (even in Hollywoodland), unless you run across democratic fundamentalist tire slashers or republican fundamentalist roll purgers, as has been the case in the past, in isolated instances.

Primaries to select a presidential candidate are different creature than "voting for president", in which different states make different rules for the two diff (*cough, cough...I almost slipped and implied they were dfferent*) parties that the electorate has allowed to be beknighted as the only viable option:

Bush/Clinton for 20 years

or

Bush/Clinton for 24.

Or maybe it might be Obama, who resembles Clinton strikingly, at least in all the ways that matter politically, despite the many self-pleasing trumpeteers of the "social firsts" enumeration society.

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