For my sins I’m doing data entry at, of all places, the Registrar of Voters for Alameda County — and missing Knuth’s talk on Friday! The software, by the way, is from a subsidiary of Diebold.
I thought you might get a chuckle out of the long list of wannabe parties hoping to sign up enough voters to get provisional ballot status. The list also includes the big seven parties which retain their ballot status by having won at least 2% of the vote for one of their statewide candidates in the last general election.
American Christian; American Independent; American National Socialist; Anarchist; Aztlan; Birthday; Black Panther; Boston Tea; California; California Green; Central; Christian Heritage; Citizens; Community for New Politics; Communist; Conscious American African; Conservative; Constitution; Democratic; Environmentalist; Equal Justice; Equalitarian; Free; Green; Green Future; Human Principles; Humanist; Independent; Independent Progressive; Justice; La Raza Unida; Liberal; Libertarian; Middle Class; National; National Unity; Natural Law; New Alliance; New Economy; Parliament Party; Patriot; Patriotic; Patriotic Veterans; Peace and Freedom; Poor People’s; Populist; Pot; Pragmatic; Prohibition; Puritan; Real American; Reform; Republican; Rock and Roll; Socialist; Socialist Labor; Socialist Worker; Technocracy; US Taxpayers; Unlimitism; United Conscious Builders of the Dream; Vernita Baldwin; Vision; Whig; White Panther; Youth International (Yippie)
As founder of two of the parties mentioned I strongly advise no one to chuckle. Regardless to differences the inclusion of many parties seeking to qualify or gain votes is an indicator of citizens involved in their the political process. In my case the United Conscious Builders of the Dream Party and Conscious American Africans Party the focus is correction of admistration and budget whereby actual needs or met. Empowerment of the people other than the large plantation slave holders is vital to improve the landscape of America politics to have a scene appropriate to a Melting Pot Nation. So don’t laugh at the conscious of concerned citizen actively advancing the necessary agenda to achieve for as many as possible the sincere actual Dream a Nation is better off making reality instead of the waste, corruption, racism, war, and flaws pressuring the actual majority to have no confidence in government. A government that is not of the people, for all its people fairly and properly, by its people is a government that must be laughed at with serious opposition. Who laughs last laughs best. These are time Dark Horse Political Parties must win or everyone will lose . . . and neither reader nor publisher will chuckle in the aftermath of political disaster. There’s a Conscious of concern, good and love, and accountability alive in many people, regardless of race, and the names of some of the parties echoes this, most certainly the parties I have founded do. The laughter must be directed on citizens who have neglected too long their civil obligations to participate in government to make their country all it can be to manifest good and Peace on Earth.
Can’t we at least chuckle at the Birthday Party?
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” —GBS