in communist north korea you are only allowed to vote for the ruling party
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2024
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Capitalist countries don't have democracy
What do you mean?
I can go down to the booth on election day and vote for the candidates the government said it was okay for me to vote for and then get a sticker that says "I voted!" on it
If that's not democracy I will eat one of my many hats
Thank you for your consent! 
i live in GA, i was gonna vote PSL under no delusion that they would win. that's how most people view the campaign and how the campaign even sells its self. the election is more about building the movement to try and win future elections. so why would this make leftists here suddenly vote for kdolf hitler? now i'm just not gonna vote lol.
Go in and draw a 
on the ballot.
What's stopping you from just writing them in anyway?
I mean it doesn't really matter what hoops they do or don't jump through, im casting my vote for my preferred candidate. If they don't provide a box for that I'm writing it in big characters diagonally across the entire ballot. My vote was never gonna mean anything anyway why would I care whether the illegitimate system thinks my vote is legitimate
And where did that bring you?
Atlanta Journal-Constitution article
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge ruled Monday that four independent and third-party candidates are ineligible to appear on Georgia's presidential ballot, although the final decision will be up to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
The rulings by Michael Malihi, an administrative law judge, would block the qualifications of independents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West, as well as the Green Party's Jill Stein and the Party for Socialism and Liberation's Claudia De la Cruz.
So the provincional judge linked to a currently ruling party blocks all candidates in an election to a federal office, except the one from their party and the one they supposedly hate with every fiber of their body?
And the one from the Libertarian Party, because they think that will take votes from the Republicans. (Although the Libertarians are always on the ballot in Georgia, so maybe they're strong enough to withstand these kinds of challenges.)
I see they are striving to reach the heights of democracy
The Democratic party is a bunch of cowardly fascists. They deserve everything coming to them.
What's the justification of the judge OOC?
They disrespected the Electoral College
In the Kennedy, West and De la Cruz cases, Malihi agreed with arguments made by the state Democratic Party that petitions for independent candidates must be filed in the name of the 16 presidential electors, and not the candidates themselves, citing a change made to Georgia law in 2017.
“In Georgia, independent candidates do not themselves qualify for the office of president and vice president of the United States of America for the ballot,” Malihi wrote. “Rather, individuals seeking the office of presidential elector qualify for the ballot to have their candidate for president or vice president placed on the ballot.”
arguments made by the state Democratic Party
Of fucking course lol. And they still can't figure out why they will be lined up alongside fascists after the revolution.
The fuck. So because they’re a third party they can’t run for president and instead have to run for presidential elector on behalf of their presidential candidate so people can vote for not the electors but rather the actual candidate who gets put on the ballot, which will then get counted in favour of the electors running. This is different to how things are done with democrats/republicans apparently, who run for president and then presumably nominate electors, so people can vote for that candidate which then gets counted in favour of the electors. Just like with a third party. 
Funny that liberals suddenly understand how voting suppression and using laws in frivolous ways works. But when it's a republican?
"We need a strong GOP because we have to compromise with the parliamentarian committee of the July Freedom caucus so that's why we can't have healthcare or housing."
Just 
harder bro
democracy :)
I thought pumpkin slice (edit: spice) latte at first and was very confused and wondered how it would play out. Unfortunately it's something serious and I feel dumb about it.
how much money does it cost to run in the us elections?
Why the fuck does a Georgia state judge even have any power to disqualify candidates for a federal election in the first place?
Like this isn’t just your standard corruption, this is a fundamental failure of federalism lmao