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Americans Elect Makes Florida Ballot

January 25th, 2012 by flanews

Florida’s presidential primary is Tuesday, but voter upset with the outcome will get another shot. The first ever nationwide online primary will be held in April. Everyone can vote regardless of their party affiliation and as Whitney Ray tells us, the winner will end up on the ballot in Florida.

Florida’s primary is a dead heat according to a Quinnipiac Poll released Wednesday.

“Mitt Romney has 36 percent, to 34 percent for Newt Gingrich,” said Pollster Peter Brown.

But if Floridians aren’t satisfied with the outcome, they’ll have another shot at it.

“Welcome to Americans Elect. For the first time the American people are choosing a leader who works for us, not just the parties and their special interests,” says the narrator in an Americans Elect promotional video.

Americans Elect will host is the first even online nationwide presidential primary in April.

The group qualified for the ballot in Florida and 13 other states. They plan to be on all the ballots by the general election in November.

“We the people are choosing the candidates and we the people are nominating a third choice for President,” the Narrator continues.

Americans Elect National Field Director Kellen Arno says most voters don’t feel like the two major parties have their best interests in mind.

“They are frustrated at both sides and so what we really felt is that, using technology, we could create a mechanism that, really I think, helped create a tool for them to feel directly represented,” said Arno.

Americans Elect was in Tallahassee Wednesday. They’re signing up delegates. Ben Stearns is just one of 450-thousand delegates nationwide.

“Everybody in the nation gets the same vote at the same time, one person, one vote. I think that is a big step towards affecting our process,” said Stearns.

Any registered US voter can nominate a candidate. The nominee is allowed to pick their own running mate, as long as he or she belongs to a different party. Americans Elect has collected nearly 2.4 million signatures. That’s more than half of the number of signatures needed to put a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.

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