Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic sits near a U.S. flag as he waits to speak, Thursday, July 2, 2009, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Novoselic, who released a new record in May, and had a short-lived protest candidacy for clerk of his home county in Washington state, is now focused on keeping an alternative voting system in place elsewhere in the state. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)