As the June 7 California primary nears, voting controversies have been making headlines across the country. Now California has delivered major surprises for one nonprofit organizing to get out the refugee vote in San Diego.

“From the start, he said: ‘This campaign is not about me’ – it’s a chance for voters who’ve been disregarded and discarded to forge a new political revolution that will continue to grow beyond this election and create a true people’s government.” ~ Jim Hightower, speaking on behalf of Bernie Sanders

Though Bernie Sanders is

With Donald Trump the now presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, he has quickly shifted gears away from his largely self-funded campaign, and is going after the large Republican donors.

La fecha límite para que los habitantes de California se registren para votar en las elecciones primarias del 7 de junio se acerca rápidamente y millones de votantes ignoran que no podrán formar parte de la contienda electoral. Para poder votar por el candidato de su elección, los ciudadanos de California necesitan registrarse con el partido indicado antes del 23 de Mayo.

El columnista Rocky Slaughter de Redding.com escribió el pasado mes de febrero que cinco mil votantes del Condado de Shasta podrían quedarse sin posibilidad de participar en las elecciones primarias de junio, tanto en el partido demócrata como en el republicano. La mayoría de ellos puede ni siquiera estar al tanto de que no tendrá posibilidad de votar en ninguna de las primarias.

Slaughter escribe:

Democracy works best when the greatest number of people participate. It is on the basis of that core belief that the Independent Voter Project wrote Prop. 14, a ballot measure that changed the state’s primary system, in 2010.

Americans are very concerned about the Electoral College. The People seem so shocked by the process, one might think the parties dreamed the scheme up recently to pull a fast one on the public. In reality, the Electoral College has been with us from the beginning of our democracy and reflects the tenuous balance between the ideals of democracy and a republic.

For generations, Americans have been told that liberty lives within the two-party system. The often uttered narrative states that the two dominant parties offer the best opportunity for voters to reflect upon and promote their own ideals. The 2016 election may irrefutably disprove this theory.

Driven by compassion and focused on self sufficiency, the PANA Opportunity Hub for refugees pilot gets off the ground with support from the Leichtag Foundation

2016’s campaign cycle, as “unconventional” as it may have turned out to be, clearly demonstrates one distinct fact—people are pissed off with the status quo! Why shouldn’t they be? The two national parties of Democrats and Republicans continue to make false promises and actually end up doing nothing.

Furthermore, the country’s corporate-controlled national media is complicit in propping up the illusion that America’s partisan establishment will change with a new election. What a load of bull!