tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12341882.post1348289556874262643..comments2024-01-10T08:42:45.216-05:00Comments on Gort42: Wilkes-Barre charter changeGorthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18353409316468830796noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12341882.post-87642284734396009062010-07-29T15:09:19.978-04:002010-07-29T15:09:19.978-04:00Keeping the districts is the best way to go. If th...Keeping the districts is the best way to go. If the voting goes city wide then it becomes harder to vote the incumbents out. How hard is that to understand? In the 2007 primary 904 Democratic primary votes were cast in District E, the one I live in. That means if I want to run I'm probably going to have to deal with about 1,000 Democratic primary votes in my district. A total of 5667 votes were cast in all of the district primaries for Democrats. It is far easier for someone to win an election with a smaller voter pool than it is with such a larger one. The switch to city-wide elections is just to ensure that the incumbents stay in power since voting them out will be harder to do. Voting out the incumbents would be easier if you take them out district by district. Having district voting makes it easier to get on the ballot and easier to get elected. Going city-wide will ensure that the machine wins it. At large the party leaders have control, not the people.Tony Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12553849004489113377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12341882.post-45593170204844230802010-07-29T14:20:13.707-04:002010-07-29T14:20:13.707-04:00voting by district is the dumbest idea ever. Coun...voting by district is the dumbest idea ever. Council members need to held accountable to every single taxpayer in the city, not just onces of his neighborhood. All a politician has to do is fight for his neighborhood and he will always be reelected. Stupid stupid stupid!!!!!!!!!! At large, the people have control, districts NO CONTROL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com