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in communist north korea you are only allowed to vote for the ruling party

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Capitalist countries don’t have democracy

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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

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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.

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Go in and draw a on the ballot.

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32 points

What’s stopping you from just writing them in anyway?

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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

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And where did that bring you?

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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.

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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?

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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.)

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10 points

I see they are striving to reach the heights of democracy

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