Vote!
The_Finch
Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8498Members
Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8498Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Or face the ninjas!</div> Today is election day in America. No matter your politics, I urge you to get out to the polling places and cast your vote. It does matter. Remember in 2000 when some 500 votes made all the difference? Well this year is just as close.
The only way America can really be representative is if we get as many eligible voters to the polls as possible. If somebody tries to discourage you from voting, just remember this. We killed a whole lot of people so we could vote, so one more isn't that big of a deal.
<i><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Go Vote!</span></i>
The only way America can really be representative is if we get as many eligible voters to the polls as possible. If somebody tries to discourage you from voting, just remember this. We killed a whole lot of people so we could vote, so one more isn't that big of a deal.
<i><span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>Go Vote!</span></i>
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The real positions that are up for relection this year are the local and state elections. These are the ones that really shape the laws that affect you as citizens and there is a great risk that an uninformed vote is a dangerous vote.
If you have researched your candidates and know exactly which ones you want to win then please go vote. But if you couldn't be bothered to learn who they were until you get into the booth then please don't mess it up for the rest of us.
If somebody feels so strongly that abortion should be pro-choice, but they don't understand every other aspect of the candidates, then they shouldn't vote today because they might mess it up for you?
If somebody feels so strongly that abortion should be pro-choice, but they don't understand every other aspect of the candidates, then they shouldn't vote today because they might mess it up for you? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes. You really can mess it up for everyone else if you vote without knowing who you are voting for.
Candidate A: I am against abortion. However, I feel that something needs to be done about the situation in Darfur
Candidate B: I am pro-choice. And I feel that Israel needs to be driven into the sea.
Now what would happen if you only looked at the one issue?
I'm not even that worried if someone is a one issue swayed voter. If you go into the booth, and you don't recognize the names on the slip, or if you do not know what the difference between the candidates are other than one has ® next to his name and the other has (D). Don't vote.
Unfortunately people don't do that. Hell many people don't even know who the vice president is!
Do you really think they should be making decisions that affect you?
Finch wins.
Unfortunately people don't do that. Hell many people don't even know who the vice president is!
Do you really think they should be making decisions that affect you? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Some might argue that this is why we have a representative democracy.
GO VOTE! No matter what. It is the one small part you play in the political process, so make use of it!
And our election would be decided by what, 2% of the population? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I've been so caught up in the presidential election that I neglected to research any of the candidates in the other races; fortunately, they were all uncontested. My ignorance: Not a factor. <i>This time</i>.
The forum made that much more funny than was intended I'm sure <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
The only responsible course of action is to vote for the man who will lead America into the future. A future forged from the iron of the present and the anvil of the past, with the hammer of freedom.
<b>Vote for <a href='http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2463' target='_blank'>Cobra Commander</a></b>.
Cobra Commander/Destro '04.
And our election would be decided by what, 2% of the population? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I've been so caught up in the presidential election that I neglected to research any of the candidates in the other races; fortunately, they were all uncontested. My ignorance: Not a factor. <i>This time</i>. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Many times I have been at the poll and there was 1 or two races that I didn't know who was running. That was my mistake not to research everyone beforehand. It happens. But I didn't just vote for the sake of voting. By doing that you cheapen the entire electoral process.
This election was the first election that I didn't come across any names that I didn't have written down on my "Why am I voting for this guy notepad"
I would have no problem if the uninformed zombies were excluded from the polls if they don't know who they are voting for. That isn't democracy its a mobocracy.
Just remember.. at least on the measures, voting 'no' means 'leave it like it is now'.