Opinion New York’s primary is ‘closed shut’ by insane registration rules
 

IMO anything other than an open primary with same day registration is voter disenfranchisement.


http://nypost.com/2016/04/18/new-yor...tration-rules/

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It is a little too late to whine about party rules in New York.

The Post is a Trump rag from what I hear.

Here is what the Huffington Post puts at the bottom of every story about Trump I quote:


"Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S."

What I'm getting is that rules and regulations put into law by the two corporate political parties to keep voters from voting and to keep third party candidates from running are pretty much OK with everyone as long as it benefits their candidate.

Our country is fucked. We may as well have a dictator.

So instead of complaining, people should do something about it. Problem is.... It is never a problem until the wrong guy is winning.

Legislation does not happen in a vacuum. People can influence legislation if they put forth the effort.

I disagree. Every time I contact my representatives all I get back are canned responses that basically tell me they will do what they want regardless of what I think. That's how elected representatives of the corporate parties think. That they've been elected to further party interests, not to represent the people. And people like us who do care? We're in the paltry minority. There's not enough of us to make a difference. Most folks don't care, they are too feckless to even notice the corruption.

Call it whining if that's what helps you sleep at night.

I call it informing the public of how our electoral system is rigged.


So what?

This article is dead to rights about the Soviet Style New York Primary rules.

I don't really give-a-fuck.

Both of these corrupt parties need to be gutted like fish.

If it takes a Trump Presidency to do it, then so be it.

I agree with you entirely. But possibly in this election cycle, establishment candidates (Jeb! & Hillary->) are both getting a run for their money. Enter Trump and Sanders, the establishment is getting rocked and all of the duopoly electioneering is being exposed. Instead of commenting on the unfairness of the process, the usual culprits here go to their fall back 'should have known better' position. Guess one can make excuses for any democratic process as long as it is not impacting your horse adversely in the race. Let's all take a look at Brazil for a look into the future.

Good luck Hillary 'Dilma' Clinton today, not that you will need it. It's already been pre-paid.

New York has 11.5 million registered voters.

27 percent of them are shut out of this primary election.

That's over 3 million voters.

Shut out because of petty arbitrary rules.

There is no way to justify that.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...-trump/478872/

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…", Attributed to Churchill.

Works better if only we could practice it.

If you get canned responses from your politicians when you want to have a voice..... Then you are doing it wrong.

You have to be ahead of the game and help craft the legislation.

Being a part of a bigger 'voice' helps.