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...Ralph Nader still hasn't lived down the charge that his third-party candidacy in 2000 swung the election to George W. Bush. It's the perennial problem for third-party candidates: too often they serve merely as spoilers, siphoning votes from candidates their supporters might otherwise back. But a little-noticed proposition approved last month by San Francisco voters offers a glimpse of how democracy may look in the future. Instead of casting their ballots for just one candidate, San Franciscans will now rank the candidates in most local races according to their first, second and third choices...
...system is being tried only in local elections for now. But if it works, it could spread to national contests--even someday, perhaps, to the presidential election. "I'm in favor of trying it," says Nader. "But nobody knows whether it will really work...
...Nader R. Hasan ’02 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...We’re a group of conscientious individuals from all religious and ethnic backgrounds,” said Nader R. Hasan ’02, one of the protesters...
...have two problems with the column by Nader R. Hasan ’02 (“Patriotism and Its Discontents,” March 13). First, Hasan criticizes Jews who he claims support Israel with unconditional “hysteria.” However, he fails to mention that the population of Jews in the world is miniscule and that Jews were the target of the greatest genocide in world history. Because there are so few Jews left in the world today, maybe we cling to solidarity because we have to. Because our existence depends...