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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 4074349" data-attributes="member: 42584"><p>"<strong>How can there be enough voters with the same bent as those they keep in power?</strong>"</p><p></p><p>- It's because of the way that the California-NTM voting system is set-up. While Bills in most states have to be <strong>voted into law</strong>, or not - in California-NTM a Bill <strong>automatically becomes law</strong> unless it's defeated.</p><p>- The lawmakers in power make sure that the smallest number of voting-age citizens are made aware of an upcoming Bill and then allow the shortest possible amount of time for the opposition to fight against it.</p><p>- The result is that in California-NTM, most Bills become laws without the citizen even knowing about them until <strong>after-the-fact </strong>(they've already been signed into law).</p><p>- This is easy to do because the majority of California-NTM citizens actually live in rural areas with [comparatively] limited access to information and voting venues, same as in Oklahoma, where many live in rural areas and don't have very good TV or Internet available, or the distance to voting facilities make voting a hassle.</p><p></p><p>I know this because I was born and raised in California back when it actually WAS a good place to live many moons ago. I left when I joined the Army, and except for being stationed there a couple of times way-back-when and a brief visit to work a civilian job (after I got out of the military), I haven't been back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 4074349, member: 42584"] "[B]How can there be enough voters with the same bent as those they keep in power?[/B]" - It's because of the way that the California-NTM voting system is set-up. While Bills in most states have to be [B]voted into law[/B], or not - in California-NTM a Bill [B]automatically becomes law[/B] unless it's defeated. - The lawmakers in power make sure that the smallest number of voting-age citizens are made aware of an upcoming Bill and then allow the shortest possible amount of time for the opposition to fight against it. - The result is that in California-NTM, most Bills become laws without the citizen even knowing about them until [B]after-the-fact [/B](they've already been signed into law). - This is easy to do because the majority of California-NTM citizens actually live in rural areas with [comparatively] limited access to information and voting venues, same as in Oklahoma, where many live in rural areas and don't have very good TV or Internet available, or the distance to voting facilities make voting a hassle. I know this because I was born and raised in California back when it actually WAS a good place to live many moons ago. I left when I joined the Army, and except for being stationed there a couple of times way-back-when and a brief visit to work a civilian job (after I got out of the military), I haven't been back. [/QUOTE]
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