Politics Page 32 and how companies will continue to deal with the pandemic remains uncertain. Will the vestiges of an austerity Government come back to haunt us? The coming months will ineluctably result in – to borrow from Judge Barrett’s 2016 Director of Corporate Enforcement v Walsh decision – “a financial maelstrom.”
Political Homelessness: Third Party Voting in the United States Dylan Krug JS Biological and Biomedical Sciences In the upcoming 2020 American presidential election, it is important to remember that a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump. Joe Biden is stealing votes from the rising presidential candidate Kanye West, thereby spoiling the election by splitting the results in Trump’s favor. Now, this case is not a genuine one to be made, notwithstanding the fact that it contains obvious falsehoods. The assumption that all Biden votes would be cast for West if Biden were absent from the race is conjecture: the premise that a vote for one candidate is, in reality, a vote for another candidate, is false. Democrats and Republicans are not often targets of this attack, but it has grown common in recent American political discourse: namely, this argument has been used against third party candidates, such as 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein. There appears to be a preoccupation with the idea of the entire political race boiling down to just two candidates, a clear choice - when in reality, the idea that a country with over 240 million eligible voters could be cleanly and totally represented by only two candidates is ridiculous. The American public encompasses an extremely broad political spectrum that cannot be fully realized in a two-party system, yet third party candidates are often treated as “spoilers”– candidates who “take away” votes from candidates with similar ideologies. This is best understood through the case study analysis of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The language used to talk about spoiler candidates is detrimental to voter integrity as it assigns ownership of the votes to the candidates, rather than the voters. For example, popular American news sources published arguments resembling those such as “by voting third-party you are taking votes away from Hillary Clinton” - which was a false allegation used to convince potential third-party voters to vote Democrat. The concept of possession is essential to deconstructing this argument - Clinton does not have any votes; rather, votes are cast for her by voters. It is the responsibility of a candidate to promote their platform: it is the duty of the voter to then decide which platform best represents his or her belief, desires, and needs. The implication that Clinton is entitled to a vote, and that any other casting of said vote is equivalent to robbing Clinton, is backwards. The foundation of the American political system is rooted in a candidate representing their constituents. If a candidate
The concept of possession is essential to deconstructing this argument Clinton does not have any votes; rather, votes are cast for her by voters. It is the responsibility of a candidate to promote their platform: it is the duty of the voter to then decide which platform best represents his or her belief, desires, and needs.
