The voting ballots are a funny thing sometimes. In last Tuesday’s election for mayor of New York, you had a choice between Democrat David Thompson & Republican Mike Bloomberg. If you’re like me, you didn’t like either choice. While I think Bloomberg did a fine job as mayor, he basically did a dictator move & got the city council to do away with the term limits law that the voters put into place only 10 years ago. That way, he could run this time around. That didn’t sit well with me.
I wanted to vote for Thompson but couldn’t because, under Thompson, the Board of Education was run into the ground. Schools weren’t being repaired, corruption was everywhere, & test scores were way below the national average. There was no way I was going to vote for someone like that to be put in charge of the city government.
I decided to vote for the independent party. Wait. Whose name is in the Independents’ slot? Mike Bloomberg. How is it possible that his name is in two different slots? Bloomberg, after all, quit the Republican Party last year & became an Independent. How can he be on the ballot as both a Republican & an Independent? I ended up voting for the Working Party candidate. Bloomberg won in a squeaker.
He wasn’t the only one to game the ballot system, though. Just about every race had the same guy on the ballot under more than one party. There was even a guy for civic judge whose name appeared three times. It’s time there were clear rules that stated that a candidate can only appear on the ballot once. He or she shouldn’t be able to appear as a Republican, an Independent, & a Conservative, or Working Families candidate.
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