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Socialist

16 (32%)

Green

8 (16%)

Peace and Freedom

2 (4%)

Democratic

1 (2%)

Transhumanist

11 (22%)

Libertarian

8 (16%)

Republican

2 (4%)

Constitution

2 (4%)

Total Members Voted: 49

[Angle]

Mmm, true enough- there is never enough time.

[SalmonGod]

Fun fact:  In my district, my vote literally doesn't count, anyway.  It's super-hardcore Republican-land here, so even by tactical voting standards, it doesn't matter whether I vote Democrat or not.  In 2012, I wrote in Jill Stein, and I know a couple other people that did as well.  When I looked at the voting results for my district, it showed 0 votes for Jill Stein.  But IIRC, it showed votes for right-wing third party write-ins...

[Angle]

Well that's pretty fucked up.

...I wonder if you could sue them over that...

[WillowLuman]

You SHOULD sue them over that. Saying "My vote doesn't count, therefore I shall not vote" is submitting to marginalization.

[SealyStar]

Honestly, even if it's a minor case that's the kind of thing that you should get public-interest groups like the ACLU clued in to.

[Helgoland]

Yeah, that shit's pretty much a straight-up attack on the principles of American democracy. Get them  by their cojones, Salmon!

[palsch]

Fun fact:  In my district, my vote literally doesn't count, anyway.  It's super-hardcore Republican-land here, so even by tactical voting standards, it doesn't matter whether I vote Democrat or not.  In 2012, I wrote in Jill Stein, and I know a couple other people that did as well.  When I looked at the voting results for my district, it showed 0 votes for Jill Stein.  But IIRC, it showed votes for right-wing third party write-ins...

What state? Some states require you register to be a valid write-in candidate before the election. There were seven states where she wasn't on the ballot or a valid write-in candidate.

[penguinofhonor]

Solid liberal. Not surprised at all.

[XXSockXX]

Also was that 0 votes or 0% of the vote, (which might make sense as a rounded down number in a big state with only a dozen of write-ins)?

[Arx]

Next-Gen Left, after skipping any explicitly American questions. Huh.

[SalmonGod]

Fun fact:  In my district, my vote literally doesn't count, anyway.  It's super-hardcore Republican-land here, so even by tactical voting standards, it doesn't matter whether I vote Democrat or not.  In 2012, I wrote in Jill Stein, and I know a couple other people that did as well.  When I looked at the voting results for my district, it showed 0 votes for Jill Stein.  But IIRC, it showed votes for right-wing third party write-ins...

What state? Some states require you register to be a valid write-in candidate before the election. There were seven states where she wasn't on the ballot or a valid write-in candidate.

Indiana.  According to that graph, it looks like she should have been a valid write-in.

Also was that 0 votes or 0% of the vote, (which might make sense as a rounded down number in a big state with only a dozen of write-ins)?

It was definitely 0 votes.

[palsch]

Huh. Looks like she got 625 votes state wide but obviously can't check the district results from here.

Only other vague excuse I can think of is if it was a postal ballot and so not counted in the initial results but then added in before the final totals were certified.

Other than that I did find this about similar complaints and an attempt at legal action in Connecticut. Not dated and can't see if anything came of it though.

[SalmonGod]

Ah... the votes must have been counted in later.

Here is where I was looking when I noticed this before.  Took me a while to find it again (mostly due to a significant web-detour).  I think I checked less than a week after the election, and don't remember seeing the Write-In count listed.  The General Write-In Tally definitely wasn't there.  I thought for sure I remembered seeing Jill Stein's name with a big fat 0 next to it.  But I just have to assume that's how my memory decided to file the event away after thinking: 'bothered to list votes for Libertarian candidate, but not the other major third party'.

So yeah... Stein apparently got 18 votes in my county.

The Detour:  Randomly stumbled upon the knowledge that a high school classmate of mine, also the wrestler who beat me out for varsity position my Junior and Senior years (he was a state competitor), married a major first-season competitor on America's Next Top Model and still lives here.

[notquitethere]

I got Solid Liberal, but only because the test forces everyone into a very reductive spectrum. In American politics, my views are probably closest to, say, Mike Gravel.

[Loud Whispers]

http://slackhalla.org/~demise/test/socialattitude.php

Progressivism    67.5
Socialism    12.5
Tenderness    43.75

Your test scores indicate that you are an open-minded progressive; this is the political profile one might associate with a journalist. It appears that you are skeptical towards religion, and have a pragmatic attitude towards humanity in general.

Your attitudes towards economics appear laissez-faire capitalist, and combined with your social attitudes this creates the picture of someone who would generally be described as an anarchist.

To round out the picture you appear to be, political preference aside, a sensible radical hereditarian with an established worldview.

This concludes our analysis; we hope you found your results accurate, useful, and interesting.

The fuck is a sensible radical hereditarian?