No Voice | Voice | Apathy | Your Voice | IVA Links Independent Voters Alliance (IVA) A Minor Change in Political Concept, But Profound in the Positive Ways Our Lives Will Be Affected Why Extreme Voter Apathy?Voters Don't Matter in Two-Party Politics!!Closed Primaries Attract Very Few Voters or Poll Workers!! About 70% have no vote in choosing Candidates? Every State!! So 99% Feel Little Connection to Elections or to The Elected! Vote by Mail, everyone?Open Ballot Access and Equal Political SpeechBy Rich Stevenson ©May 20, 2019Interim Acting Co-Chair of the USAIVA and the Jefferson County KYIVAMeet the IVA
Very sad indeed. I am registered as an Independent, so have no voice in either closed D or R Primary Election. My brother is registered as an R, but would much rather have a voice in choosing the D opponent to Governor Bevis and Butthead (Bevin), who my brother and I hate for all his radical positions on issues. In the General Election my brother and I will vote for anyone but Governor Butthead (Bevin). For me, I may vote for the Libertarian if he is on the Primary Ballot. I will print up the ballot tomorrow to see if my brother or I have any reason to go vote. Like 88% of voters, we are somewhat likely to not waste our time on voting. An establishment D, or an establishment R who supports Donald Trump, who we both disrespect, give us no choice. Why bother. I have a non-establishment favorite in the Democratic Primary. But I cannot vote in that primary. Freedom of Choice Blocked: In Kentucky all registered voters are stuck in the party they chose in the previous year. No party changes are allowed during the current election year. Most voters dislike both parties, but are forced to choose D or R if they want to have a vote in at least one of the two primaries allowed in the state. KY law severely restricts voter choices to give complete control and power to the two parties that 99% of the voters do not trust. Little wonder the Closed Primaries attract so few voters and Poll Workers. We are in the habit of not being involved in closed partisan elections. 70% of eligible voters are not registered D or R. Very few want to give full support to either D or R Party. We would much rather vote in every Primary and General Election that is on the ballot. We want totally Open Elections with no partisan restrictions. When Primary Elections allow every eligible voter to vote we will have a reason to vote. We will attract candidates who better represent the interests of the 99% and the nation. Our votes will then count and we will vote in every election. For now, our elections are sadly unrepresentative. Make our elections proudly representative in a robustly democratic republic. Enact these three solutions into law in KY and in every state:
Solution 1: Open all KY Primary Elections
to every eligible voter. We could have Final Five Open Primaries with
Ranked Choice Voting To decide General Elections in all fifty states
to give all voters a voice in every election.1
(A general
referendum on every candidate elected.)
If you work the Primary Election polls now, too
many workers are processing too few voters, with over half of the time
spent doing nothing. (General Election turnout is usually not much
better.) Every candidate on the General Election Ballot in November is
chosen by these pitiful unrepresentative Primary Elections. A majority of eligible voters
do not elect any candidate in Primary or General Elections. Our
elections are extremely undemocratic.
Voters have no power in our elections. No Voice!! In all fifty states!!
Your state included!!
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