Editor:
After looking through the candidate section of the Humboldt Sun (Oct. 16) I have a few of my own opinions.
One: The Electoral College.
Two: The two-party system.
Three: The third party candidates.
Taking them in order, starting with the Electoral College: With today's mass communication systems - telephone, cellphones and computers we use daily - the Electoral College has outlived its usefulness by some fifty years or so. We are stuck with this outdated system until congress and the people change the way votes are tabulated. The horse and carriage days ended a long time ago.
The two-party system has worked fairly well in our society and leaves little room for multiple parties such as is found in England and some other countries around the world.
Which brings me to number three: the third-party candidates. I see some good-meaning people with some good views howling in the wind. They stand on their soap boxes batting their gums and getting a very small percentage of the votes, probably not as much as Nevada's (none of these candidates) appearing on our voting ballots.
Providing these people truly want to make a change in our national or local politics, they should swallow their pride, rejoin the two-party system either as a Democrat or a Republican, beat on some doors, get elected and get serious about their views. Like the Electoral College and the two-party system, don't hold your breath for any changes in the near future.
In conclusion: quit fighting the windmill, join the two-party system, get elected and try to change the way things are done. Just remember the best ways to waste your vote is to vote for (none of these candidates) or vote for a third-party candidate.
F. B. Heyne
Winnemucca
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