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I'm glad this new template alerts me to messages because I would missed this one that came in just yesterday to an old post on third parties and fusion voting. Jflashmontana of Mass Ballot Freedom advises they're on the case in the Commonwealth. It sounds like a great project to empower the electorate. Makes me wish I still lived there.

Under a system of cross-endorsement, candidates' votes on each line are tallied separately before they are added together. That way, the candidates can see exactly how much support they received from voters who DIDN'T vote for them on a major party line.

In the end, you don't throw your vote away, but you do send a powerful message that the Democrats and Republicans can't take your vote for granted.

Meanwhile, former DetNews co-blogger Kevin McKague, who left the team to run for office himself, checks in on this post to advise he caught his local paper astroturfing letters. In an ironic twist he organized an email campaign that sent at least 100 identical emails in protest.

Finally, I've been meaning to point you to Acoustic Dad who blogs out of Australia and checks in here with the sad news that they seem to have caught the post 9/11 paranoia Down Under as well. He leaves us an apt quote from Shakespeare. Check out his excellent blog.