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To: Geoff Altman who wrote (280392)	11/13/2008 1:24:51 PM
From: Neeka	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794476

I think what you mean is Electoral Fusion? Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties support a common candidate, pooling the votes for all those parties. By offering to endorse a major party's candidate, minor parties can influence the candidate's platform. en.wikipedia.org The New Party has been advocating Fusion voting to "break the stranglehold that corporate money and corporate media have over our political process." The New Party is an umbrella organization for grassroots political groups working to break the stranglehold that corporate money and corporate media have over our political process. Our current work and long-term strategy is to change states' election rules to allow fusion voting - a method of voting that allows minor parties to have their own ballot line with which they can either endorse their own candidates or endorse the candidates of other parties. Through fusion, minor parties don't have to always compete in the winner-take-all two party system and can avoid "spoiling" - throwing an election to the most conservative candidate by splitting the votes that might go to two more progressive candidates (ours and another party's). For more information on fusion click here or here. We hope you will join us in re-establishing fusion as a tool for Americans to take back the political process. newparty.org