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2. Why don't they just give them back to the League of Women Voters

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:46 PM

Jun 2015

The two parties messed with the system and screwed it up as this group pointed out when it happened then...

http://lwv.org/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud

Bring them back to administer it, and have it be a more fair system where you don't jail third party candidates that try to attend debates like they did Jill Stein of the Greens in 2008.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala

America is sick of this crap! That is why the debates have dropped down in interest...

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Bipartisan Group Urges Overhaul of General Election Debates [View all] brooklynite Jun 2015 OP

Why don't they just give them back to the League of Women Voters cascadiance Jun 2015 #2

all the debates up until the nominee debates can be labeled as... Javaman Jun 2015 #5