Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a real question

Re:Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a re... by iamthepieman on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:03PM (#20442807)

This is me every election except I don't soften or reverse my opposition, just try to figure out which bundle most closely matches mine and sometimes get frustrated enough that I vote third party anyways. Sometimes I take a whole ticket approach and vote one side for governor. and the other for Lt. governor. One bundle for president and the opposite bundle for senator for instance.

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Re:Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a re... by asark on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:17PM (#20442962)

If the point is to more-or-less represent the views of the people, our system does an exceptionally poor job of it, between this and lots of winner-take-all elections + gerrymandering (sorry, other 49.9% of the population, better luck next time). I'm probably less on the "more democracy is always a good thing" side of the spectrum than most in the US, but this stuff is subversion of democratic will to no clear systemic beneficial purpose. Quite the opposite, as far as I can tell.

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Re:Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a re... by Fjolsvith on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:51PM (#20444511)

> sorry, other 49.9% of the population, better luck next time

At least both sides get to take their turn at the helm. Seems to work okay to me.

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Re:Why does God need public records? In Alabama, that’s a re... by ginvok on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:11AM (#20448341)

It would be great if we could vote on Policies instead of Politicians right.

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