THE LAST OPTION - WRITE-IN

To protest the expenditure of millions of dollars on the part of the announced candidates to promote themselves and buy the presidency, and the corporate media's seizure of the nation's voting power, the villager suggests that all Americans write in their choice for President at the 2008 polls. An example, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida. Or write in Al Gore, Colin Powell, Oprah, Bill Gates, or whomever you want to run the country. In this way, the majority of write-ins will determine the course of our democracy in the next four years and truly represent the people's choice. True?

WRONG - NOT AN OPTION - The electorate (that's us) are restricted by RULES again and the people cannot choose in an open, free election in which the popular vote prevails.


A Daytona Beach News Journal (FL) reader in a letter to the newspaper reported that she checked in with the Elections Department, and there will be a place on the November ballot for the voter to mark and write in a name. The catch is, though according to the Editor's note, is that in order for votes for them to count in Florida, write-in candidates for president and vice president must qualify between noon June 30 and noon July 8 with the state Division of Elections. That's as much as the villager knows - voters might want to check out state rules themselves. Possibly Obama, Clinton and McCain would be pre-qualified in every state, but if voters are not satisfied with the press pre-selected nominee, they could write in their own choice and it would be counted. Who knows? But just tossing anyone's name in, including one's own, would not count! It's possible, of course, there could be unknowns qualifying as write-ins but none who could represent a preponderance of the vote and therefore a throw-away vote.

Has there ever been in the history of this country an election conducted to overcome and overrule the citizens' first and foremost freedom - the right of each citizen to choose their leader for a representative government. Not until now. People who do not want the far left or the far right but want a centrist, representing all the people, must listen for and make themselves heard above the hoof beats of the persuaders.