GET OUT AND VOTE!

[Kaervak]

Got back from voting a while ago. No more paper ballots, just Diebold hack-o-matic voting machines. There have been problems all over Ohio with those damned things. Bad bad bad idea to use them.

 

[Sqube]

Yo voté!

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: KDOG
Just got back from voting. All Republican of course...

People like you are worse than non voters

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: irishScott
I'm 18. Voted Absentee a few weeks ago.

Might as well have not wasted your time

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: DougK62

Originally posted by: Led Zeppelin

Originally posted by: DougK62
I hate how everyone stereotypes non-voters as lazy bums who don't care about politics. Lame.

What would you stereotype them as?

Why do you want to stereotype? Some are lazy bums, yes. I've met many who are very smart, active within their community, and know more about politics and political history than most of the people running for office.

Non-voters are free to not vote. They just need to learn to not bitch about who (or what) gets voted in.

Even when they are Republican in a Democratic town/county/state and the vote is never close enough to matter?

 

[RandomFool]

"I voted"

 

[Number1]

Don't you all non voters stand for anything other then your right to be lead by others?

Aren't there anny issues that are important to you?

Your attitude suck.

I would have voted but I am Canadian.

Can I use one of your non voting citizen's vote. I stand for something so I could help make it happen. Since you non voter don't care, what diference would it make?


:roll:

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: totalcommand
Please get out and vote. Whether you are Republican, Democrat, Black, White, Yellow, Green, it's important to exercise your right to have a say in government.

It's sad that young people don't vote much, because in the end everything that's happening today can come and bite us in the arse in the future.

Please bump this message if you get a chance.

<disillusioned young person>

system's broken!:|

</disillusioned young person>

while i believe in the above statement, i am also living out of my state of residency for the next 5-6 years, and feel that a blind vote is worse than not voting at all

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Syringer

Originally posted by: kranky
If you don't know anything about the issues or the candidates, then just stay home, please.

I work with too many people who puff out their chests with pride for having voted, when they don't have a friggin' clue why they chose certain candidates.

The guy in the next aisle just told me in the break room he voted for the current State rep instead of the chalenger. I asked why, he said because the challenger wants to raise taxes. I asked where he heard that, the answer was in a direct mailing from the current rep.

In fact, the challenger's entire campaign has been about LOWERING taxes. The incumbent studied the challenger's plan, found that it raised taxes for the top 1% of wage earners, then launched a smear campaign saying the guy wants to raise taxes. The challenger's plan would lower taxes for all retirees, and those making less than $80,000 a year.

So I pointed this out to my co-worker, and he got mad at me. Go figure!

Thank goodness, a voice of reasoning. IGNORANT people should NOT vote. If all young people voted Britney Spears would win a race for senate.

There's nothing more annoying than people wanting people to simply vote blindly and without doing any research. What good can possibly be had if 19 year olds were to fill in random bubbles down the ballot?

Listening to information directly from one of the people running which concerns that person's opponent, well, it's going to be suspect. And politics is almost designed to be misleading.

For example, I shall introduce a bill which makes it illegal to kill, bake, and eat baby harp seals. But someone attaches a rider which makes it legal to pan-fry them.

If you vote for the bill, the ads against you say, "Candidate X supports pan-frying baby seals."
If you vote against the bill, because you don't like it in its entirety, the ads against you say, "Candidate X supports baking baby seals."

If, as a voter, your only information source is attack ads, you're going to vote against this candidate because he likes killing baby seals.
If you are fully informed, you're going to know that the law was written poorly, and so the candidate was probably right to vote against it.

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: newmachineoverlord
shouldn't this be stickied? I voted already, and I got two stickers. Bump.

I only got one sticker?

But I did vote .

 

[postmortemIA]

Nobody to vote for.

 

[oboeguy]

Your vote may not "count" or "make a difference" but the fact that you get out to vote does. So get out there and vote!!!!!!

(I did this afternoon)

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: oboeguy
Your vote may not "count" or "make a difference" but the fact that you get out to vote does. So get out there and vote!!!!!!

(I did this afternoon)

Explain how

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: dxkj

Originally posted by: oboeguy
Your vote may not "count" or "make a difference" but the fact that you get out to vote does. So get out there and vote!!!!!!

(I did this afternoon)

Explain how

your vote only counts if you voted for the winning candidate. powers and positions aren't divided based on the number of votes each candidate receives - so if you win you get it all, or if you lose you lose it all.

 

[JS80]

Please don't fvcking vote if you don't understand the issues.

 

[Canai]

/votered

 

[KLin]

Quick question. Should I vote yes or no on all of the california initiatives? Or should I vote randomly? Who's better, Phil or Arnold?

 

[dartworth]

sigh...

such a sad state of affairs



<---voted :thumbsup:

 

[Rogodin2]

Absentee ballot-but I voted yes, all democratic.

Not going to waste votes on Independents or Greens.

Rogo

 

[JS80]

woot

VA SEN [41.14% IN]
ALLEN 453,055 50.60%
WEBB 431,308 48.17%

 

[SparkyJJO]

I voted, couple weeks ago actually, absentee ballot (I'm at school so I couldn't be home to vote today).

 

[2Xtreme21]

Originally posted by: JS80
woot

VA SEN [41.14% IN]
ALLEN 453,055 50.60%
WEBB 431,308 48.17%

With 44% it's 50 Webb, 49 Allen. It's WAY too early to call. That's going to be something that'll be decided at the wire...

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21

Originally posted by: JS80
woot

VA SEN [41.14% IN]
ALLEN 453,055 50.60%
WEBB 431,308 48.17%

With 44% it's 50 Webb, 49 Allen. It's WAY too early to call. That's going to be something that'll be decided at the wire...

woot i'm calling it

VA SEN [57.47% IN]
ALLEN 629,330 50.20%
WEBB 609,220 48.59%

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: Syringer IGNORANT people should NOT vote. If all young people voted Britney Spears would win a race for senate.

Or someone like, say, Arnold Schwartzenegger, could end up as governor of a celebrity-obsessed state!

 

[Rogodin2]

why would you want Allen to take it?

Rogo