OT: Should US Elections have a RESET button?
Hugh_G_Rection
Michigan
What I believe the US Electoral process needs is a Reset Button. Seriously.
What I am proposing will never happen because it will totally piss off both major parties, but what if instead of the oft-proposed "None of the Above" there was an option to "RESET"? A way of telling both parties that none of the candidates offered in a race are acceptable and that if 2/3rds of the popular vote agreed, would force the parties to select entirely new candidates through a caucus and bring them into another election in.... say 3 months or so. Just take your Superfund money and your candidates and shove them up your *$$, thank you!
Do you think an Arbitrary 2/3rds of Americans would be on board for this option with the disgusting choices we face on November 8th?? Also, how would this be implemented in the future? Would it take a constitutional amendment? That would probably be impossible considering we can't get both sides to agree on anything and certainly never on a giving power back to the voters.
What I am proposing will never happen because it will totally piss off both major parties, but what if instead of the oft-proposed "None of the Above" there was an option to "RESET"? A way of telling both parties that none of the candidates offered in a race are acceptable and that if 2/3rds of the popular vote agreed, would force the parties to select entirely new candidates through a caucus and bring them into another election in.... say 3 months or so. Just take your Superfund money and your candidates and shove them up your *$$, thank you!
Do you think an Arbitrary 2/3rds of Americans would be on board for this option with the disgusting choices we face on November 8th?? Also, how would this be implemented in the future? Would it take a constitutional amendment? That would probably be impossible considering we can't get both sides to agree on anything and certainly never on a giving power back to the voters.
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It's days like this when I say "man why didn't Joe Biden or Paul Ryan run?"
Some states do have none of the above as an option for state races.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20…
I am not a fan of Trump either I would love to reset and have Herman Cain or Rand Paul.
I think we saw this in 2012 once Mr Romney was the last GOP candidate standing, who have been vetted without a major scandal. (For the record, I don't consider the lower 47% speech to be that damning, even if I just missed the cut over for the lower 47% by only a few percent, myself, and yes, I do pay taxes.) We also had a viable alternative to Mrs. Clinton in 2008 and 2012, where we didn't really have traction in 2016, in large part because Mr. Biden decided not to run and instead focus on Cancer research (moonshot).
I would have liked to have seen a Mr. Kasich versus Mr. Biden campaign.
Formally, I think the government does have a write-in option on the ballots. And should that, too, fail to reset things. The Electoral College itself by design is sort of a Reset Switch, should they exercise it. Though except for a cursory theoretical understanding that it is possible with the EC I don't know how that would legally play out? But I throw that out there. :)