Citizens United decision--should elections be postponed or the results boycotted?

[OlympicBrian]

I TOTALLY disagree with the poster suggesting it would be hard to get a Constitutional amendment turning back the CU decision. 80 percent of the public is against the CU decision. How many issues do the American people agree on, 80 percent? Pearl is right on track, with 80 percent of us!

"Americans of both parties overwhelmingly oppose a Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations and unions to spend as much as they want on political campaigns, and most favor new limits on such spending, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/17/AR2010021701151.html

What this means is our upcoming election is based on a premise that 80 percent of Americans disagree with. That's shocking! I'm even an advocate of postponing the election or boycotting the election results (go out and vote anyway) until this pressing issue is resolved.

If I were a progressive Secretary of State, I would refuse to conduct and/or certify the results of the elections for my state. Sure, I might be fired, but it would make this issue even more visible.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pearl-korn/citizens-united-an-assaul_b_772482.html

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[OlympicBrian]

4. No, I said results boycotted...

I fixed my original post to clarify that democrats should still go out and vote.

[skepticscott]

10. But you'd refuse to certify

the results of elections that Democrats won? Great.

[Skink]

2. we could impeach.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Impeach the Supreme Court

The 5 members that voted in favor of this usurpation of peoples' rights.

Outlaw all lobbyists, if a corporation has a need to talk to a Congress person
then they can do it in person with a person from the corporation.

Term limits.

[skepticscott]

5. Exactly which right

is it that was usurped?

[OlympicBrian]

7. Supreme Court impeachment wouldn't be fast enough

What would a boycott of election results look like?

1) A progressive Secretary of State refuses to certify the results for a state.
2) Mass protests take place against the swearing-in ceremonies.
3) Other ideas?

[Hekate]

6. Just out of curiosity, where have you been for the past 10 years?

[OlympicBrian]

8. Ready to come out swinging mad...

:-)

[skepticscott]

9. 90 percent of Americans

haven't the slightest understanding of the Constitution. What exactly is your point?

And on what grounds would you violate state election laws? Because some people might have been exposed to political ads that were not 100% honest? Horrors!!

[ddeclue]

11. NEVER SAY BOYCOTT because the other side is not going to do so.

If you forfeit the game you still lose.

GO VOTE!

I'd recommend to the mods that this thread gets deleted as vote suppressing..

[Ozymanithrax]

12. The constitution requires them, and contains no provision to postpone..

elections. So that would be a big negatori.

Boycott the results. Well, if you were a candidate you might boycott the results and just not go to Washington. But the next congress is going to start right on time. There is no feasible way to boycott them, since they will be passing laws and legislating whether we like it or not.