On 11/13/2012 3:29 AM, aGREATER.US wrote:
Incumbents have a huge unfair advantage in that corporations
> (including unions) pour money into their reelection campaigns. > ...
Easily overlooked is the fact that corporations elect their board members using single-mark ballots, and labor-union members use single-mark ballots to elect their union leaders.
Keeping in mind the unfairness of elections that use single-mark ballots, the consequence is that corporations are not under the control of shareholders, and labor unions are not under the control of voting labor-union members.
As a consequence, the Republican party is not controlled by individual investors, and the Democratic Party is not controlled by labor-union workers.
Instead, both parties are controlled by the biggest campaign contributors using lots of money that was given to them by people who are not well-represented by those "elected" corporate/union leaders.
If better ballots and better counting methods were used in corporate board-member elections and labor-union-leader elections, the Republican and Democratic parties would come closer to representing the majority of voters (even without any improvements in governmental elections).
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