SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Christina Tobin, CEO and founder of Free and Equal Elections Foundation is proud to announce exciting changes for StopTopTwo.org as it transitions to a new, nationwide focus, after the June 8 election.
“StopTopTwo.org will be taking a new direction in California and will expand efforts against the spread of this bad reform to other states,” Tobin said. “The idea of the Top Two election system is already spreading quickly across the country and StopTopTwo.org is stepping up to the challenge of facing a national audience that deserves to be educated about this limited election system. StopTopTwo.org will take what has been happening in California and will share it nationwide in an effort to defend voter rights.”
Leading up to the June 8 election, StopTopTwo.org was the most comprehensive resource for information on Proposition 14, focused on voter education regarding the dangers and flaws of a Top Two election system and urged voters to vote against Proposition 14. The StopTopTwo.org website is in the process of transitioning to the new focus of educating voters across the country about Top Two election systems.
Within weeks of the election, public polls showed Proposition 14 would pass with 60% of the vote but the 53.7% final percentage showed that momentum had shifted toward a no vote. Election returns in several counties indicate that Proposition 14 was defeated by voters who went to the polls on Election Day.
Early mail-in ballots were influenced by the millions spent by special interests in favor of Proposition 14. The early ballots were also mailed before the media did much of their reporting on the potential downfalls of the Top Two system.
“We almost overcame being outspent by Governor Schwarzenegger and his rich friends 50 to 1,” Tobin said. “The vote didn’t turn out like we wanted, but this is hardly the end of our efforts in opposition of the Top Two system. StopTopTwo.org is not going to let up fighting against bad election laws.”
“We agree with the voters of California who are desperate for real changes and were willing to grasp at Proposition 14 before they learned more about it,” Tobin said. “Through the support of lawsuits like SB6 and further outreach efforts, StopTopTwo.org will show the voters in California that there are better reforms than this.”
Members of media, bloggers and all interested voters will be invited to a press conference next week to learn more about what is going on with Proposition 14, state Senate Bill 6 and StopTopTwo.org.
Contact:
Free and Equal
Christina Tobin, CEO
312.320.4101
According to Wikipedia, Proposition 14 was passed by 2,868,945 votes out of an electorate of 16,977,031.
So a minority of 17% decided to opt-in to this ridiculous top-two system, further decreasing the choices available in California elections to the made-men and women of the duopoly crime-family.
This is the basic flaw in pseudo-democratic initiative systems like California’s. Fully 83% of the electorate opted-out of this crooked system by not voting for it, yet the 17% minority rules.
I am working for a national Recall, Referendum,and Initiative Amendment (R2IA) that would inaugurate direct democracy in America, giving all power to us, the people… IF we vote to us it.
If we don’t vote for a given recall, referendum, or initiative then nothing will change unless a bona fide majority, not a lame plurality as in the case of Proposition 14, vote to opt-in, and in that case it would have made no difference which way we might have voted.
It should not be legally possible for a tiny plurality… 1 out 6 voters… to bind all the voters by their decision.