March 7, 2012 With Super Tuesday Results Unclear, Americans Elect Provides Serious Third Choice

PRESS RELEASE from Americans Elect
Contact:
Ileana Wachtel
National Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WITH SUPER TUESDAY RESULTS UNCLEAR, AMERICANS ELECT PROVIDES SERIOUS THIRD CHOICE
AE is giving American voters the chance to bypass two-party system

WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 7, 2012 - As the nationwide frenzy of Super Tuesday draws to a close, it is clear there’s still no real winner among the field of Republican candidates. Despite that, the White House has decided to start its general election campaign early in an effort to win back Democratic voters and Independents who have been disappointed over the last three years.

Americans Elect, however, is telling the American people that it is not time to settle. We are giving all voters a serious third choice for president in 2012. We are unencumbered by special interest and Super PAC money. We’re not influenced by the political class of consultants or guided by Washington lobbyists. Americans Elect is giving the American people the chance to draft and directly nominate candidates who can run authentically, untethered to the fringes of political parties.

Amid low turnout yesterday among voters age 30 and younger in Super Tuesday states – with some turnout estimates as low as 5 percent – the electorate continues to cool to the erratic nature of the GOP primaries and the two-party system as a whole.

“Americans Elect is the serious third choice to bring about the kind of reliable leadership this country needs to create reform. We believe that if we can change the way we elect our leaders, we can change the way they govern,” said Elliot Ackerman, COO of Americans Elect.

Seizing on the leadership vacuum in Washington created by an unpopular president and a Congress that habitually fails to act, Americans Elect and it’s volunteer delegates nationwide have stepped forward and answered the call to change this country and its politics at a critical point in our history.

While Republicans and Democrats continue their partisan bickering and dysfunctional campaigns full of personal attacks, Americans Elect is offering every voter in America, regardless of party affiliation or location, an opportunity to bypass the two-party system and directly nominate their choice for president through the first-ever national online primary at AmericansElect.org.

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