Common Sense

             I have been thinking about this for a while.  I am so tired of voting for the least of two evils for President.  Neither party seems to want to put up a decent candidate.  Actually I can’t imagine why anyone would want to run for public office with the nasty politics that goes on these days.  But, never the less we see only professional politicians that do not represent the will of the people.  Every now and then we see an independent candidate that we might like, but we don’t dare vote for them because in the two party system we would be wasting our vote and electing the worst of the two evils.  I am one of those that liked and voted for Ross Peroit, but wound up helping to elect Clinton by giving my vote to someone that didn’t stand a chance.  This I realized too late.  It seems like our choices are the hard left Communists or the moderate Liberals.  The conservatives seem to be missing anymore.

            Our government needs fresh blood…those that haven’t sold their soul to the political machine.  The only way to open the doors to this is by changing our election laws.  We have to make room for a third party or independent.  This would bring competition to the system we now have and improve the two existing parties chances of bringing better candidates.  

            What I suggest we bring up for discussion is changing the way the States’ Electoral votes are cast in the National Electoral College.  Instead of all votes going to one candidate as most states currently do, break them down by candidate according to the popular vote.

            This would allow an independent candidate to have a chance in future elections, give voice to the voters, prevent the waste of your vote, and provide a fair election process.  Some would argue that with multiple candidates one single candidate might not get the required number of electoral votes to become president.  This could all be resolved through negotiations.  The electoral votes for an independent candidate could be assigned to either party by the independent after receiving concessions, thus insuring that the winning candidate represents all views represented by the voters.  At the very minimum this form of election would force the two party system into a more competitive representation of the voters, and might even allow the election of an Independent candidate.  At least us voters would not be wasting our vote. 

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