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...refers to the group as “the Party of Principle.” Voters expressing support for such parties necessarily have a concern for their ideological motives, rather than for their candidate’s charisma or charm. Since this, after all, is the goal of democratic voting??for citizens to vote for, and presumably elect, those representatives whose values and policy preferences will most accord with their own—third-party voters are likely closer to an ideal of democratic decision-making than mainstream party voters ever will...
...tests cover a wide variety of topics, including racial, religious and gender biases as well as preferences among the presidential candidates. “As psychologists, what we’re doing is using the Web site to understand some of the mechanisms that go into the act of voting??how our attitudes and preferences about social groups might affect our choice of a candidate,” Banaji said. Nosek said the project began with tests based on the contenders in the primaries but switched to Barack Obama and John McCain when it became clear they would...
After two competitive rounds of voting??and a technological blip during the first round—the results of the senior Class Marshal elections were announced yesterday afternoon. Among the eight elected marshals were First Marshal Lumumba B. Seegars ’09 and Second Marshal Philip L. Perez ’09. As Marshals for the Class of 2009, Seegars, Perez, and six of their peers will be responsible for planning Class Day and Senior Week, as well as future alumni activities such as reunions. “I am so excited and happy...
...Let’s break that number down: a magic majority of 2,025 means that there are 4,049 total votes, 3,253 of which are “delegates”—awarded by popular voting??and 796 of which are “superdelegates.” In most elections since 1972, the year that the Democratic nominating process began to be democratized, one candidate dominated the caucuses and primaries so much that superdelegates were irrelevant; a candidate could collect 2,025 votes at the convention just from delegates...
...considering all of the voting issues we’ve faced in the last eight years, any opportunity to help more people vote should be seized. To be sure, the price of postage is only one issue among many—including on-site registration and limited absentee voting??but it’s one that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. The process of voting by mail needs to be made more straightforward or citizens may be unfairly disenfranchised—the best and easiest way to do this is to abolish the de facto...