Editor:

Why do American voters have to choose between the two most unpopular presidential candidates in the last ten presidential election cycles? Because the Commission on Presidential Debates says so.

The Commission on Presidential Debates sounds like an important public entity, but is, in fact, a private corporation hired by the Democratic and Republican parties. It defines the “minimum polling threshold” of 15 percent that third party candidates must reach before they are allowed to participate in the presidential debates. The polls that the commission uses for that purpose don’t always include the Libertarian and Green Parties.

We urge the commission to suspend these arbitrary rules and include all four presidential and vice presidential candidates in all of the upcoming 2016 televised debates.

The right to vote doesn’t mean much if we don’t have the right to know who we can vote for!

Manuel and Roz de LizarriturriGreen PartyPueblo