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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nypoet22
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&lt;i&gt;None of the above is under 35, sorry &lt;/i&gt;

Heh. 

It dang sure wasn&#039;t born in this country either... neither was its mother and father.</description>
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<p><i>None of the above is under 35, sorry </i></p>
<p>Heh. </p>
<p>It dang sure wasn't born in this country either... neither was its mother and father.</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>None of the above is under 35, sorry</description>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice fantasy you got there, CW; I agree that fantasizing should not be bound by any reality-check. 

&lt;i&gt;And since The People would have spoken, shouldn&#039;t this second election bar any candidate from the first one&#039;s ballot from running? &lt;/i&gt;

And since you&#039;re barring &quot;any candidate,&quot; you&#039;d also have to bar &quot;None of These Candidates&quot; since it&#039;s definitely a candidate by virtue of being a choice on the first ballot... because isn&#039;t every presidential election described as the &quot;lesser of two evils&quot; when there&#039;s virtually always more than two presidential candidates on the ballot in each of the states and DC? Of course there is.

Additionally, I don&#039;t believe the American electorate writ large actually has a very good understanding of each state -- as set forth in the US Constitution -- running their own elections, having their own ballot access laws, and how every candidate is not automatically put on the ballot in every state. Colorado and Maine actually have ballot access laws that (taken as a whole) do actually preclude Defendant Donald from having ballot access. Trump was allowed to defend himself (and did) in Colorado and lost (seems a definite habit with that one). Other states don&#039;t have the exact same ballot access laws as Colorado and Maine and have come to different conclusions for different reasons. I also suspect many state laws are going to be changed in order to keep Wannabe Dictators off them. 

My 2020 ballot in Texas had a lot more than two presidential candidates on it:

Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)	 
Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)	
Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)
Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G)
Brian T. Carroll/Amar Patel (Unaffiliated)	 President Boddie/Eric Stoneham (Unaffiliated)	
Gloria La Riva/Leonard Peltier (Unaffiliated) 
Tom Hoefling/Andy Prior (Unaffiliated)
Todd Cella/Tim Cella (Unaffiliated)
Kasey Wells/Rachel Wells (Unaffiliated)
Robert Morrow/Anne Beckett (Unaffiliated)
Jesse Cuellar/Jimmy Monreal (Unaffiliated) 
Abram Loeb/Jennifer Jairala (Unaffiliated)

The vast majority of them are write-in candidates because there isn&#039;t a place to write in anyone&#039;s name, but write-in candidates jump through a myriad of hoops to have their names placed on the Texas presidential ballot. Note there is no &quot;Kanye West&quot; since he wasn&#039;t on the ballot in all 50 states either, but I digress.

It seems to me like (whether you meant to or not) you&#039;ve made an awfully strong case for having ranked-choice voting in every state.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice fantasy you got there, CW; I agree that fantasizing should not be bound by any reality-check. </p>
<p><i>And since The People would have spoken, shouldn't this second election bar any candidate from the first one's ballot from running? </i></p>
<p>And since you're barring "any candidate," you'd also have to bar "None of These Candidates" since it's definitely a candidate by virtue of being a choice on the first ballot... because isn't every presidential election described as the "lesser of two evils" when there's virtually always more than two presidential candidates on the ballot in each of the states and DC? Of course there is.</p>
<p>Additionally, I don't believe the American electorate writ large actually has a very good understanding of each state -- as set forth in the US Constitution -- running their own elections, having their own ballot access laws, and how every candidate is not automatically put on the ballot in every state. Colorado and Maine actually have ballot access laws that (taken as a whole) do actually preclude Defendant Donald from having ballot access. Trump was allowed to defend himself (and did) in Colorado and lost (seems a definite habit with that one). Other states don't have the exact same ballot access laws as Colorado and Maine and have come to different conclusions for different reasons. I also suspect many state laws are going to be changed in order to keep Wannabe Dictators off them. </p>
<p>My 2020 ballot in Texas had a lot more than two presidential candidates on it:</p>
<p>Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R)<br />
Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D)<br />
Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L)<br />
Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G)<br />
Brian T. Carroll/Amar Patel (Unaffiliated)	 President Boddie/Eric Stoneham (Unaffiliated)<br />
Gloria La Riva/Leonard Peltier (Unaffiliated)<br />
Tom Hoefling/Andy Prior (Unaffiliated)<br />
Todd Cella/Tim Cella (Unaffiliated)<br />
Kasey Wells/Rachel Wells (Unaffiliated)<br />
Robert Morrow/Anne Beckett (Unaffiliated)<br />
Jesse Cuellar/Jimmy Monreal (Unaffiliated)<br />
Abram Loeb/Jennifer Jairala (Unaffiliated)</p>
<p>The vast majority of them are write-in candidates because there isn't a place to write in anyone's name, but write-in candidates jump through a myriad of hoops to have their names placed on the Texas presidential ballot. Note there is no "Kanye West" since he wasn't on the ballot in all 50 states either, but I digress.</p>
<p>It seems to me like (whether you meant to or not) you've made an awfully strong case for having ranked-choice voting in every state.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chris, I can&#039;t believe that you didn&#039;t choose who the respective veeps might be! :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris, I can't believe that you didn't choose who the respective veeps might be! :-)</p>
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