Re: All right, the US election is over..

[James Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: jonathan flanders <jon_flanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: November 8, 2000 1:43:19 PM GMT
Subject: Re: All right, the US election is over..



>No Nestor, from the point of view of democratic rights, the main >issue
>post-election is the reactionary electoral college system.
>
>Not only did this system mean that candidates Gore and Bush >restricted
their campaigning to a few "swing" states, effectively >disenfranchising the
majority, but now we have the prospect of the >candidate who was defeated in
>the popular vote winning the election!

Abolishing the electoral college would be a good first step.
Eugene Debs' Socialist Party as I recall was advocating that
over a century ago.  What is really needed though is the
abolition of the current wiiner-take-all electoral system
which effectively locks into place the existing two-party
(really one party with two wings) system. If that can be
accomplished, there would be room within the electoral
system for parties like a labor party or the Greens.

Jim F.

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>Jon Flanders