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Lack of choice in the congress race

Day 491, 08:15 • Published in USA USA

• by killersinc

I noticed that in the congress elections today there is only 3 choices. All of which are the big political parties. How are the smaller parties going to get power in the congress if we can not get on the ballot. One of my party members in Oklahoma could have one( with the current votes thrown out there for the major parties.) but he was not on the ballot. I think this is crap! Everyone should be on the ballot if they have put their name in for congressmen.

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Aren Perry Day 491, 08:30

this is partially because people from smaller parties move to bigger ones to run, adn then move back after the election, they do this very very often, in the AAP, I know we have atleast 4/5 NP people running in our party

Citizen Dru Day 491, 08:58

Yeah. It's a flaw (or feature?) of the game that non top-5 parties are not granted ballot access. I'm inclined to support this, actually, since leads to stronger overall party groupings and representation in congress. Imagine if the congress had not 5-7 parties, but rather 20-30 little vanity parties.

Minor parties can either a) run their candidates on the slates of larger parties or b)work to build their membership to get in the top 5.

Lorenzo Serafini Day 491, 09:11

LOL hell, if I can, take a look at many Real European nation's governments. A 15-30 party government just doesn't work. Prime case, Italy. A government every year...
But I also agree that a 5 party maximum on ballots is crazy. A cap of 10-12 would be great.
The admin should break up the global 5 rule so that only nations over say XXX amount can have more parties.
(lol we have 12000, most aren't even close.)
Voted, for its a great point.

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