New voters could make big difference

An estimated 100 million persons are of voting age but do not vote.\nWith two Reform parties and a Green party doing well in the polls, third parties might get as many as 18 million votes, or twice the 9 million of the 1996 election. And that from the population that normally votes.\nBy getting nonvoters in the key states to register and vote (and there are 28 million in California, New York and Texas alone), third parties would begin to get serious attention.\nThird Party members and friends in the other 47 states and D.C. should try to get these people to register and vote. And also persuade the 72 million nonvoters in their own states.\nIt is amazing that in a country of open elections, in a country where in every organization you ever belonged to, the principle of majority rule was respected, our president was elected with only 47 million or less than 25 percent of the voting age population.\nThis suits the two parties just fine and makes it easy for their six-figure contributors to provide serial incumbents in Congress.