That Election Stuff

[queerbychoice]

I voted nearly a straight Green Party ticket - there was only one instance in which I voted for a Democrat when a Green Party candidate was also runing. Of course, it helped that neither of California's Senators (both Democrats) are up for reelection, so I didn't have to worry about the Democrats' Senate majority. And it's a good thing I didn't, too, because it would not have been as comfortable to vote for Senator Dianne Feinstein anymore as it has been in the past - though Senator Barbara Boxer, on the other hand, has won my everlasting devotion by voting against the War Powers Act.

I also voted to have my address changed. Yes, you read that right. I voted for the creation of a new city called Rancho Cordova, whose proposed boundaries I already live inside of. I would have to write to everyone who has my address and tell them all to start putting "Rancho Cordova" in my address where the word "Sacramento" (it's currently an unincorporated area in Sacramento County) has previously been. I think it will pass, too; but we'll see.

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[curare.livejournal.com]

i voted all green too!
except where there weren't any green candidates,
in which case i voted democrat.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yay! I got an ad in the mail for the Democratic Party telling me that Democrats are the party that all women trust, because the Democrats will protect our right to choose. Then along the bottom of the page they had a big long line of all the Democrats running in California that women trust to protect women's rights . . . and every single candidate was a man. How telling. I don't trust a party that nominates exclusively males to protect "women's rights."

That ad was part of what disgusted me into voting more Green than I ever have before; they would have done better if they'd at least found something to brag bout that they actually are good at, instead of pretending to be something they obviously aren't. Though as I said, I did vote Democratic this time in one instance where a Green Party candidate was available. Just once though. For state attorney general.

[curare.livejournal.com]

this is the first time i've voted ALL green.
i thought it'd make me feel less guilty,
but it doesn't. :(

[elfbabe.livejournal.com]

Russ Feingold has won my undying devotion for similar reasons - voting agains the authorization-of-military-force thingy, voting against the Patriot act *happy happy*, that sort of thing... even makes up for the Ashcroft thing. :-P

[ex-audient412.livejournal.com]

Rancho Cordova isn't a city?!

This is very distressing to me; I grew up being told that when I was born my parents lived in the city of Rancho Cordova, but I was born in Sacramento because the nearest hospital was there.

everything I know is a lie.

a brit writes....

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

This is a bit of a rhetorical question, but why don't the Democrats fix an electoral pact for one set of elections whereby they make electoral reform / PR (ideally STV of course) a manifesto pledge to be delivered as top priority within their first term of office, in return for the assorted smaller parties standing aside for one round of elections?

There seems to be a clear cenrte + left majority against the republicans even out of the tiny group of people who still bother voting over there.

Hey ho. Our voting system's almost as bad so I shouldn't cast stones...