An "independent" is someone who had trouble deciding between McCain/Palin and Obama/Biden, right?

[moriah]

42. The solution to fix the problem is ranked choice voting.

I hope to see it in Presidential General Elections by the time I die.

But the movement for it must start locally. It can be done with verifiable voting. The piloting of machines at localities using it gives plenty of time for analysis of how to secure the votes and work out bugs. You could do full audits in local communities cheaper and catch software bugs and security flaws.

But it's the only solution that will allow a third party to win, because people can actually vote their conscience instead of their fears. And even if for the first few elections the current major parties win, the number of people who only listed them as second choices will influence them.

I love my Party, because it's the best one we've got that has a chance. It's the rules we have, and I am not going to stand outside of the process if I can work inside it until what I have always believed should be the real revolution, ranked choice voting at all levels of government, happens.

And believe me, I am working for that revolution. They have to start from the bottom up, though....