So, a straight party vote. (You went by the labels, not by the people.)
For shame! =) On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:52 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <chumph...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > In my county's results, http://bit.ly/bL4cj8, 6175 people voted > > "straight party" out of 15,687 ballots - almost 40%. That is insane. > > > > I think this should be abolished from all ballots. To, me, it > > encourages voters to be lazy and not really know anything about the > > candidates. > > > > The Democrat will not ALWAYS the best person for the job nor will the > > Republican ALWAYS be the best person for the job. > > In my election we had at least 6 parties on the ballot. In most cases > the same candidate was endorsed by multiple parties. Where I could I > would vote with the third party line (conservative) unless the > candidate on that line was also endorsed by the democrats but not the > republicans... and yes, we had a few local candidates that were on all > the lines and some cases where they would get the D, I & C lines but > not the R. > > Was definitely an interesting night to watch. > > Hatton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330866 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
