Comments on: Hillary Clinton Supports Voting Rights for Territories

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:01:21 +0000

Fred – You are correct. I typed the name of that party too fast. On the Peace & Justice Party line, Nader ended up getting 15,626 votes, or .2% of the total vote. On the Independence Party line, he got 84,247 votes, or 1.1% of the total vote. This was down from his year 2000 totals when he ran on the Green Party line. His totals for that year were 244,030 votes, or 3.6% of the total vote.

By: Larry West

Larry West — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:54:50 +0000

I had heard the reason Puerto Rico, et al doesn’t vote in Federal elections is that they don’t pay federal income tax. Is this not correct?

By: Fred Church Ortiz

Fred Church Ortiz — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:17:12 +0000

Actually, Nader’s other NY ballot line was the Peace and Justice Party. Peace and Freedom was still strictly a California thing in 2004, and didn’t end up giving their line to Nader.

By: Steve Z

Steve Z — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:02:05 +0000

Richard – Just to clarify, the Democrats in New York State couldn’t do anything to keep Nader off of the ballot even if they wanted to. While Nader did make the ballot under the Peace and Freedom Party, which needed to circulate petitions in order to get his name on, he was also listed as a candidate under the Independence Party. Since the IP is ballot qualified in New York State, they couldn’t challenge the petitions. The only difference between the two ballot lines was a different Vice-Presidential candidate. My guess though, is that if the IP didn’t endorse him, the Democrats would have challenged his Peace and Freedom petitions to keep him off of the ballot. Since the IP did endorse him, the issue was moot.

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:26:13 +0000

Hillary endorsed and 13 Hillary supporters in the DNC rules committee decided to penalize Florida and Michigan for failing to adhere to the DNC timeline by not including them. This has created a firestorm now that Hillary wants the rules changed to accommate her campaign. I think in 2012, Territories should vote and supporters of a candidate should not be making the rules.

By: Somebody

Somebody — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:42:03 +0000

You make a good point. seems all the voting laws are just lots of dubble talk to manipual people, or dobble speak ( an Orwellian concept )

By: Michael Thompson

Michael Thompson — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:03:50 +0000

Susan,

Can you send me more information on this, including a list of the 16 states?

chair @ newamericanindependent.com

By: Darryl W. Perry

Darryl W. Perry — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:00:40 +0000

Independence for Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands!!!!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:18:16 +0000

Let’s not forget the 600,000 disenfranchised citizens of the District of Columbia. We get Presidential voting rights…but no Senators or Representatives in Congress. We have a wonderful non-voting Delegate whose allowed to scream as loud as she wants.

By: Demo Rep

Demo Rep — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:22:00 +0000

Uniform definition of Elector in ALL of the U.S.A.
– along with P.R. and A.V.

Sorry — NO votes for felons in jail — traitors, murderers, robbers, rapists, etc. ???

Sorry — NO votes for mentally ill folks — like most of the New Age Prez candidates — making nonstop demagogic pandering comments about A to Z subjects ???

Sorry — NO votes for folks 0 to 17 years old ???