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...argues that, “[c]urrently, elections are supervised by the bipartisan Federal Election Commission” and that “the FEC keeps third party candidates out of elections.” This is simply not true. The FEC has no authority at all over state ballot access laws, that is, laws that determine which parties appear on the ballot. Nor does the FEC have authority over the manner of election. The biggest single obstacle to third party success is the United States is the “winner take all” system of elections, which...
Smyth next briefly detours to specifically criticize me as a “problem” on the FEC. This is a curious detour, indeed, given that my 1991 article in the Harvard Journal of Legislation, “Judicial Protection of Ballot Access Rights,” remains one of the most important and oft-cited pieces of legal scholarship supporting the rights of third parties. I am almost certainly the biggest supporter of third parties on the commission. In the fall of 2000, during the dispute over which candidate, John Hagelin or Pat Buchanan, was entitled to government...
...University protests, the regional office will rule on the union’s eligibility and will then require that a majority of eligible graduate students support unionization in a secret-ballot vote. The university has the option of protesting a regional board decision in favor of the union to a five-member national board, a process that impounds the vote results and can take months...
...presidential debates, and the controversy surrounding them, brought to light another unfair organization—the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan had enough support to get on the ballot in many states. However, they were excluded from the debates because of their failure to show 15 percent support in a national poll. This exclusion was a direct result of Democrat and Republican collaboration. Eight of the CPD’s nine board members are Republicans or Democrats, and the executive director is a Republican...
Throughout most of the country, public schools are run by school boards that are either directly elected or appointed by elected officials. This arrangement fosters accountability in school leadership, because communities can use the ballot to translate their dissatisfaction into change. After privatization, however, residents will have no direct power over day-to-day decisions in schools. Budget allocations, curriculum choices and administrative hirings are just a few examples of decisions that will now be left to private firms and universities. Although board members can still exert some pressure on private managers by threatening to vote against their contracts when...