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Forum Post: AMERICANS ELECT - Third Party Candidate to be Elected by the People

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 28, 2011, 12:30 p.m. EST by growth2012 (1)
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Finally, we have a choice! We can use the internet to upset the current political system. I just found about about Americans Elect today. What you think?

http://www.americanselect.org/about

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[-] 1 points by growth2012 (1) 13 years ago

I'd say it's better than the status quo. Better than a left government who still takes money from big corporations, which equals corruption plus no jobs

[-] 0 points by shardin (0) 13 years ago

I think there's good reason to believe that AE will manipulate the nomination process to restrict it to candidates that reflect the austerity-oriented centrists that populate its Board of Directors.

AE is a closed corporation whose by-laws allow the Directors to eliminate members and/or nominees for reasons known only to them.

Also, there is no structure of law which governs the nomination process, and no guarantee that the online nomination process isn't tamper proof. A lot of info about AE is available at their site, but also here: http://irregulartimes.com/ Search for Americans Elect on this site and you'll find many posts that trace its evolution from a critical perspective.