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Do you vote?
Topic Started: Oct 13 2006, 06:11 AM (457 Views)
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justme
Oct 13 2006, 08:28 AM
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Oct 13 2006, 12:26 PM
Yes, I vote and I purposely hang my chad. :lol:

YOU WOULD! :lol:

That's only cuz I wish I lived in Florida like you!

Never been there, they tell me it's nice.

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Dave Spelvin
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Oct 13 2006, 08:26 AM
Yes, I vote and I purposely hang my chad. :lol:

That's OK, provided you've first closed the curtain around the voting booth.

I vote in every election, but not in every primary. I understand it's only one vote, but it's mine and I cherish the right. I always feel deeply honored when I go to vote, knowing that there are so many who can't.
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Dave Spelvin
Oct 13 2006, 09:13 AM
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Oct 13 2006, 08:26 AM
Yes, I vote and I purposely hang my chad. :lol:

That's OK, provided you've first closed the curtain around the voting booth.

I vote in every election, but not in every primary. I understand it's only one vote, but it's mine and I cherish the right. I always feel deeply honored when I go to vote, knowing that there are so many who can't.

A local writer for our paper wrote a column the other day regarding voting.

He used to bemoan the 25% turnout rate and how those who don't vote can't complain about the state of affairs.

Now he's come to the realization that this is a good thing. He's now encouraging all the nonvoters to stay home.

He's just realized that his vote counts all the more when he's one of the 25% voting.

Makes sense actually.

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Oct 13 2006, 01:17 PM
He used to bemoan the 25% turnout rate and how those who don't vote can't complain about the state of affairs.

If an electoral choice is between knobhead A and knobhead B, and they elect a knobhead, I have every right to complain whether I vote or not. Voting won't change the overall quality of candidates, the only way to do that is to become actively involved in politics, actually putting in one's own spare time, spending money, etc. Voting is passive involvement.
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Is a knobhead dumber than a knucklehead?


Seems like my only choices are knucklehead A and knucklehead B.

So mostly I write in my dog's name, at least he'd represent my views.


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Voting is passive involvement.

I apologize if I sound preachy, but people died for my right to vote. Perhaps my lever pulling in any particular election is relatively passive, but my right to do it was paid for in blood. I do not understand how avoiding the ballot box makes this a better country in any way.
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Dave Spelvin
Oct 13 2006, 12:27 PM
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Voting is passive involvement.

I apologize if I sound preachy, but people died for my right to vote. Perhaps my lever pulling in any particular election is relatively passive, but my right to do it was paid for in blood. I do not understand how avoiding the ballot box makes this a better country in any way.


well said, Dave

In fact, I don't think voting is passive involvement if one approaches their time in the booth by self-educating in preparation to make a decision. Most people don't do that, but for those who do, there is no way the voting process is passive.

Democracy is a pretty lame concept if people don't vote. We're supposed to be the governors (not that reality is anything close to that, but the concept in its purer sense) There is no official way to voice your part in the governing of the state/country unless you cast your vote. In my opinion, the most important votes we cast are on local issues. Most people, if they're going to skip out a vote, do it when it makes the most difference, which is unfortunate and irresponsible. We need to educate ourselves from the ground up and care about city/state stuff as well as national and international issues. Unless it works differently in other places, whenever I go in to vote for the "big" ones, there are numerous local issues on the ballot as well. And judges to vote on. If all we do is throw up our hands and carp because we don't have perfect candidates for president, senator, or congressman, and, as a result, never take care of our own back yards, it's just so much :blah:
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I vote, but feel differently about it depending on the election.

I'm with Dave to some extent, because the freedom to vote is very important indeed. However, in national elections, I seriously believe that my vote does not affect the outcome of the election (or the policies implemented by the elected politicians) very much at all. I do not think I have a very direct participation in our national government. But, my participation is not totally insignificant, and so I'll still vote.

The more local the elections get, though, the more important my vote becomes. I care a lot more about state or local elections than I do about national elections. My participation makes more of an impact, and the outcome will affect me more.

I cite irreconcilable differences.
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exactly, AL

I think we all feel a little lost at sea in the general elections. It's a big dang country and the electoral system has a way of making an individual's vote seem ridiculously insignificant.
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Oct 13 2006, 01:27 PM
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Voting is passive involvement.

I apologize if I sound preachy, but people died for my right to vote. Perhaps my lever pulling in any particular election is relatively passive, but my right to do it was paid for in blood. I do not understand how avoiding the ballot box makes this a better country in any way.

It doesn't, and I apologise for being deliberately argumentative. Obviously we should all make the effort to vote. I've just become so jaundiced of late with the state of politics - I'm not talking just about America, it seems to be universally sleazy, that I've become more cynical than is good for me. If I was back in England, I really would have a hard time voting for anyone, not because I'm lazy, but because I'd feel kind of dirty even voting for Labour, which my natural disposition tells me are the best of a bad bunch, at least among the electable parties.
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I have voted at every opportunity given since I was old enough to vote. If I didn't the State would be issuing bonds that it could ill afford, the city putting money where it shouldn't, and who knows what else. You didn't have to vote for Bush or Gore, there were other candidates. One year I remember giving voting for Ross Perot - he at least took the time to explain some Federal financial basics.

As my wife says, if you don't take the time to vote, then stop your %!@&#$ing complaining.

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I once saw a guy step behind the curtain to vote, and then in a voice the people waiting in line could hear, he said (I think it was jokingly), "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo..." ^_^

And yes, I vote in almost every election. I've only missed two or three since I was first registered to vote.
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George K
Oct 13 2006, 10:39 AM
Shouldn't this be a vote poll?

No. All the responses would be yes. :wink:
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