February 3, 2008

Nader's name may be on the Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party ballots, but he isn't running for President.  He didn't even form his own exploratory campaign.  The whole thing is a hoax perpetrated on the Green and Peace and Freedom voters by a fan of his named Howie Hawkins.  The Green and Peace and Freedom Parties allow a stand-in to create a hoax campaign on behalf of someone who is not really running on the chance that he will someday run.  Nader's supporters are full of hoaxes.  His groupies formed an exploratory committee and then sent out deceptive articles claiming that Nader had formed an exploratory committee.  Honest voting rights activists are hoping the truth gets out before voters vote for a non-existent candidate.

The hoax may be aimed at putting a dent in the campaign of popular anti-war Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.  While Nader failed to oppose Bush or the war or the Patriot Act,  Congresswoman McKinney took on all three, voting against Bush's Florida electors in 2001 and his Ohio electors in 2005, against the war in Iraq and its funding and against the Patriot Act. Voting rights activists wonder if the Democrats put Howie Hawkins up to tricking the Greeen and Peace and Freedom voters in an attempt to limit the effectiveness of these third parties. 

This is a reason that the voting age should be lowered.  Young voters would never be taken in by such a fraud on the voting public.  The Peace and Freedom and Green Parties could prevent this from happening again by closing the proxy candidate loophole.

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