Sentences with phrase «ballot access system»

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The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

But the defining characteristics of modern politics in the United States are a corrupt campaign finance system that enables corporate and wealthy elites to purchase political outcomes; and an abundance of anti-democratic electoral, ballot access and debate rules designed to minimize participation and choice.

It's time to reclaim our democracy, reform our distorted campaign finance system and restore access to the ballot box in all 50 states.

«Ultimately we want to build a third major party that gives citizens access to the ballot and a voice in the system,» Mertens said.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

This issue contains statements from the nominees for the 2010 APBS board of directors as well as the printable voting ballot and instructions on how to access the online voting system.