[Magdalen] speech

[Lynn Ronkainen]

In TX one can vote for the whole slate of one party in essence in one push of the button once you dial that command. I've been threatening to do that for the first time in my life, just because. In regular elections, not primaries one can vote multi parties. In primaries one has to choose the party before even getting the paper code to activate the voting carrel. : (
Lynn

On Sep 8, 2018, at 4:12 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

We can choose to vote R or D as a slate in SC.  I have done that on
occasion.  But, in SC, we may not have a D in particular local races, and I
like to write in someone.  The R's in SC are teapartiers, Roger, so I
cannot vote that way.

Ginga

> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 3:48 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Roger, I’ve never heard of being able to vote for a whole slate with one
> button, but maybe some states have that.
> Thankfully, our big elections are staggered, i.e, we don’t vote for
> governor in the same year as president; senate terms are six years, etc.
> 
>> On Sep 8, 2018, at 3:41 PM, Roger Stokes via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 08/09/2018 15:43, Judy Fleener wrote:
>>> makes me weep.  I had a talk with a son yesterday about politics, asking
>>> him to vote a straight ticket, which you cannot do in Michigan.  He
> peplied
>>> by saying " I don't want to be a socialist."  Where did I go wrong?
>> 
>> My understanding of Democratic Party policies is that they are very far
> from socialist in the European. let alone the Communist, sense. If they
> were then you would have had Medicare for all by now, decent transport
> infrastructure and a properly funded public education system. The
> appropriate answer might have been "Do you think government should be for
> the public good or enrich those who already have more than enough?"
>> 
>> I assume that being unable to vote a straight ticket in Michigan means
> that you can't go the machine, select D or R, push the button and you have
> voted for all the candidates who have the chose party affiliation. Given
> how many positions you vote for in the USA I can see some sense in blocking
> that simple exercise. It may be that you prefer the policies of one
> candidate for, say, Governor but prefer the other party's policies for the
> city council.
>> 
>> Roger, who is very thankful not to have to vote for so many offices at
> the same time.
>