When it comes to defining the choices you will have on this fall’s general election ballot, it’s a disturbingly select club. In fact, so far, nationwide, according to a July 22 Washington Post article by Philip Bump, it’s not even 15% of voters eligible to participate in our country’s primary elections. In other words, as the piece reports, there are 123 million Americans who have been able to vote in the primaries that have already been held, but only 18 million have done so. So if you don’t like what’s on the “menu” this November, it’s likely because a very small, ideologically driven group has already determined the selections for you. Read more of my latest blog entry, We Can’t Afford to Have 15 Percent of Voters Determining Our Elections, here: olympiaslist.org/?page_id=11
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:49:59 +0000
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