Please Vote On Tuesday

blacknapkins
blacknapkins Posts: 2,177
edited November 2006 in A Moving Train
It is important.
"Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is the best."
~ FZ ~
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  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Please don't vote on Tuesday unless you've studied the issues and are making informed choices (whichever way you vote).
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Rove is watching you take showers.
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  • DPrival78
    DPrival78 CT Posts: 2,263
    it is important.

    whats more important is that everyone's votes are counted properly.
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    jeffbr wrote:
    Please don't vote on Tuesday unless you've studied the issues and are making informed choices (whichever way you vote).
    Word.

    Being informed doesn't just mean voting it means being involved and actually informed.
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,255
    There are elections this Tuesday? First I've heard. My district will vote in a Democrat with a foot in the grave Tuesday.
  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
    unless you are a republican.. too all republicans reading this.. the election has been moved to wednesday..
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    jeffbr wrote:
    Please don't vote on Tuesday unless you've studied the issues and are making informed choices (whichever way you vote).
    YES!!!
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I will not be voting again this election. I'm a conscientious objector in that I can't in good conscious vote for any of those crooks, and the term lesser of two evils isn't something I believe in endorsing.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    know1 wrote:
    I will not be voting again this election. I'm a conscientious objector in that I can't in good conscious vote for any of those crooks, and the term lesser of two evils isn't something I believe in endorsing.

    I agree..

    Besides how do we know which is lessor?
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    know1 wrote:
    I will not be voting again this election. I'm a conscientious objector in that I can't in good conscious vote for any of those crooks, and the term lesser of two evils isn't something I believe in endorsing.

    Then don't plan on bitching about any issues then. You have no grounds to stand on if you don't vote.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Then don't plan on bitching about any issues then. You have no grounds to stand on if you don't vote.

    Oh really? If I oppose BOTH candidates, how can I vote for one of them?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • ledvedderman
    ledvedderman Posts: 7,762
    You could still go pull a ballot, vote for the fields you want to, and then turn it in with as few or as many of the fields filled in. Just vote. If not, P Diddy will kill you. I think he's serious about his Vote or Die idea...
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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    know1 wrote:
    Oh really? If I oppose BOTH candidates, how can I vote for one of them?

    Hey, I have issues w/ the candidates too. I think most of them are greedy crooks, too. But if you choose not to vote, you are giving up any chance of making your voice heard. LedVedderman has the right idea...do a paper ballot. I personally think that there should be a 3rd column in the booths...NONE OF THE ABOVE. That way they'd really know what we think of the candidates.
  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Hey, I have issues w/ the candidates too. I think most of them are greedy crooks, too. But if you choose not to vote, you are giving up any chance of making your voice heard. LedVedderman has the right idea...do a paper ballot. I personally think that there should be a 3rd column in the booths...NONE OF THE ABOVE. That way they'd really know what we think of the candidates.

    Not voting makes more sense to me. If less people voted in a system they didn't believe in, they'd have trouble continuine to pretend this is a democracy and perhaps become more of one.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Hey, I have issues w/ the candidates too. I think most of them are greedy crooks, too. But if you choose not to vote, you are giving up any chance of making your voice heard. LedVedderman has the right idea...do a paper ballot. I personally think that there should be a 3rd column in the booths...NONE OF THE ABOVE. That way they'd really know what we think of the candidates.

    No...I'm not giving up any chance of making my voice heard. Where do you get that from?
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    If there were an issue I felt required my vote - I'd vote.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Abuskedti wrote:
    Not voting makes more sense to me. If less people voted in a system they didn't believe in, they'd have trouble continuine to pretend this is a democracy and perhaps become more of one.

    NOT voting doesn't do anything. We already have a problem with the young people in America not voting, and it's probably the reason Bush won in '04. No one is going to look at the low percentages of Americans voting and say "hmm, we have a problem, no one's going the polls". What you need to do is speak up, vote for issues you believe in (there are a few credible candidates out there) or protest if you don't agree with what's going on.

    Sitting back and not voting doesn't make sense because you're achieving absolutely nothing.
  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    Jeanwah wrote:
    NOT voting doesn't do anything. We already have a problem with the young people in America not voting, and it's probably the reason Bush won in '04. No one is going to look at the low percentages of Americans voting and say "hmm, we have a problem, no one's going the polls". What you need to do is speak up, vote for issues you believe in (there are a few credible candidates out there) or protest if you don't agree with what's going on.

    Sitting back and not voting doesn't make sense because you're achieving absolutely nothing.

    I won't argue that I am not achieving anything.. But I just don't know who to vote for - the news lies to me, the candidates lie to me, the president lies to me.. I don't know who to vote for.

    I did know to vote againgst George Bush in 2004 - so I did. If I know something again.. I'll do the same
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Jeanwah wrote:
    NOT voting doesn't do anything. We already have a problem with the young people in America not voting, and it's probably the reason Bush won in '04. No one is going to look at the low percentages of Americans voting and say "hmm, we have a problem, no one's going the polls". What you need to do is speak up, vote for issues you believe in (there are a few credible candidates out there) or protest if you don't agree with what's going on.

    Sitting back and not voting doesn't make sense because you're achieving absolutely nothing.

    Not voting sends a message just like voting does.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    know1 wrote:
    No...I'm not giving up any chance of making my voice heard. Where do you get that from?
    know1 wrote:
    Oh really? If I oppose BOTH candidates, how can I vote for one of them?

    You're not voting, or it least you make it sound that way.

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