National Libertarian candidate Bob Barr won't head the ticket on New Hampshire ballots come November. New Hampshire has filed it's own candidate for the Libertarian party. Bob Barr will still be on the ballot, but he will have competition, and it comes from more than just George Phillies (New Hampshire's Libertarian candidate).
New Hampshire Libertarian candidates did not get enough votes in the last election to be considered an official party so they will be put in the "other" category with parties like the Green party and their candidate; Cynthia McKinney.
But the problem for presidential hopeful Bob Barr is compounded by a ridiculous ruling by the state supreme court in 2006 which said that candidates can no longer be listed in alphabetical order because it is an unfair advantage to candidates whose names start with the letter "A". I know how stupid that sounds but that is what we have come to here in New Hampshire. Evidently New Hampshire voters' attention span isn't long enough to scroll through a list of candidates until we find the one that we intended to vote for.
A new method of listing candidates was fought over until New Hampshire legislators decided to pull a letter out of a hat before every election cycle and start the list there, wrapping around to "A" and beyond. This year the letter "K" leads off the order of the candidates on the ballot. That means that Cynthia McKinney will head the "other" ticket, followed by Ralph Nader, George Phillies, and then Bob Barr.
Then there is the whole popsicle stick procedure to decide what party gets to be in the left column, this is so stupid that I can't even be bothered to try to explain it so I give you a paragraph from
this article:
POPSICLE STICKS: If the alphabet system sounds involved, wait till we start picking popsicle sticks.
"That comes later," [Bill] Gardner
[WP] said last week.
That procedure began two years ago, too. To be fair about which party got listed in the first left-hand column on a ballot, Democratic, Republican and Libertarian officials picked sticks that listed numbers one through 24, for each Senate district. Each group picked eight. If a Democrat picked Senate District 1, for example, Democrats would be listed in the first column on all ballots in that district. Republicans would be next. Independents, Libertarians, Green Party and others would be in a third column.
The "others" candidates can't be in a middle column because there would be too many blank spaces between candidates from the major parties, making comparisons difficult, Gardner said.
House districts that elect multiple candidates (Windham-Salem voters elect 13) may see some long ballots in November. A new law says names of candidates for House cannot appear beside another, so there will be blank spots all over the place in big districts as the list goes deep into the ballot form.
How did we ever get to the point where New Hampshire voters are considered either too lazy or too stupid to find the person that they want to vote for on the ballot? When did we reach the point that New Hampshire voters were thought of in such low regard that a voter is thought to be so distracted by the names on the ballot that they find a name that they like and vote for that person before they are able to get the the candidate that they intended to vote for?
I don't know, but it all seems to have happened since Democrats took over. The nanny staters are running wild in New Hampshire.
If a person is that stupid or lazy that they either can't understand the ballot, or can't find the name of the candidate that they want to vote for than fuck them. They shouldn't be voting in the first place.
