Sunday's Non Sequitur- Gonna be a long 14 months

[n2doc]

[treestar]

1. so true.

and we will pay no attention to any of our local races at all.

[-none]

9. And local is where a lot of these idiots get their start.

And we don't pay enough attention to what their stand is on anything. Again at the local level, we just vote on name recognition. Like rooting for a sports team, being on the winning side is more important than voting for someone that comes closest to our values.
Our problem is that all too often we agree with them, instead of making them agree with us.

[treestar]

12. exactly and we have these 14 friggin' months to get to know

every person running for Senate, House, Governor, state and local races.

too many people put it all on the Presidency and then claim disappointment when the POTUS turns out to have to have a bill passed by Congress. Always looking for the messiah with the bully pulpit who can convince everyone when time and time again it is proven no human can do that.

And that's right, they get their start there. Where were these progressives when Ted Cruz got into the Senate, just for starters? When Marco Rubio got elected to the Florida House of Representatives. More important, what are they doing to get "real progressives" into their State Houses or Congress? Nothing, just mooning over Bernie Sanders who is apparently not going to have to deal with Congress and can change it all himself with a magic want.

[Gothmog]

2. Great cartoon

[Auggie]

15. Yep. And artistically perfectly.

Wiley can draw.

[Skidmore]

3. I can't tell you how much I loathe this election cycle.

I really do. Sick to death of it.

[jtuck004]

4. It seems like we get so little for the cost. n/t

[TNNurse]

5. If I ran the world

There would be no election activity...no announcement, no ads, no debates, no mention until 6 months before election day.
Did I mention no ability to donate or collect donations? Because that should be included.

I guess it goes without saying that Citizens United is abolished. I have not decided about a top limit on donations....any suggestions???

[Demeter]

6. One vote should suffice

anything else is greed

[A Simple Game]

7. Six months? What are you a masochist? I say 3 months is enough. n/t

[n2doc]

8. $100 a family. no bundling. Provide free unlimited access for debates on the media. n/t

[sarge43]

10. Election Day a federal holiday

Polling places announced, identified, accessible and clearly marked.

[TNNurse]

16. I am fine with the federal holiday plan

but there have to be other options. Many people have to work federal holidays (and many other holidays). It needs to be easy for any voter to vote.

[Volaris]

14. E-voting machine Code should be locked, but open source

That way, anyone who knows what they're doing can download a copy, run simulations/check for errors/malignant lines of code etc and report what they find. Only those with proper public authority allowed to make changes to code used on election day, but allow live-streaming of all code processes ON election day , so if a problem IS happening, it can be caught and reported in real-time.
That SourceCode should belong to the Public, and be considered PUBLIC (if limited use) information.
And any community college -level IT programming class could likely build one, so it shouldn't be difficult to achieve.=)

[Euphoria]

18. The integrity of a vote is essential to everything

about our politics, and the quality of political decision-making.

[MBS]

11. I'm tired already. n/t

[lark]

13. Living in FL,

I know how he feels. it sucks being in a purple state during elections.

[Electric Monk]

17. k&r