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Here's why I vote:

1) Even the small difference made by electing a slightly less destructive person into office is well worth the five minutes it takes to register and the 30 minutes or less it takes to vote.

2) A lot of places allow write-in candidates, and I can vote for who I please whether or not they're on the ballet. Also, even if write-ins aren't allowed, I can vote to allow write-ins when that question is put on the ballet.

3) I'm an equal opportunity skeptic who thinks that minorities, women, and people who aren't the sons of wealthy men should get a chance to fuck things up, too.

4) There's always someone to vote against.

5) Not voting helps the people who have all the power stay in control. They really like it when the people who are unhappy with them don't bother to vote.

6) I don't think that I have any right to bitch about the current power structure if I do nothing to change it.

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JaNell wrote:}2) A lot of places allow write-in candidates, and I can vote for who I please whether or not they're on the ballet. Also, even if write-ins aren't allowed, I can vote to allow write-ins when that question is put on the ballet.

Damn ballet dancers....they shouldn't be allowed to do that dancing thing...might lead to fucking or some such nonsense.

You mean "ballot".

Sorry, I had to.

But yes...people that don't vote rather piss me off.

Buttercup wrote:

JaNell wrote:}2) A lot of places allow write-in candidates, and I can vote for who I please whether or not they're on the ballet. Also, even if write-ins aren't allowed, I can vote to allow write-ins when that question is put on the ballet.

Damn ballet dancers....they shouldn't be allowed to do that dancing thing...might lead to fucking or some such nonsense.

You mean "ballot".

Sorry, I had to.

But yes...people that don't vote rather piss me off.

That's what I get for trying to type while Ro is talking to me. Oh well. Those tights look pretty silly anyhow...

I get really frustrated with people that whine and complain about the government, and the way things are, and when you ask them if they vote, they say never.

Ugh.

I still have big fat hairy bellied politicians in tights on the brain.
Dancing.
Make them stop dancing.

Arnold & Gray Davis doing Swan Lake....

George W. on point in his cowboy boots...

hehehe....

thats right! why vote? when you can let the electoral college do it for you!

karmakaze wrote:thats right! why vote? when you can let the electoral college do it for you!

That is one thing that I was going to point out...while that, yes, I do vote, it is quite frustrating to know that the electorial college elects the Pres and not the majority...or that the Masons decide....regardless, I believe that our voting system has become uber corrupt....but I will still always exercize my RIGHT to vote.

LadyIvanna wrote: electorial college...or that the Masons decide....regardless, I believe that our voting system has become uber corrupt...

you mentioned them both....
like they arent the same people in both organizations....
HINT HINT HINT.
and yea, uber corrupt but if enough people vote it can overthrow their plans.. it has happened before (clinton got reelected didnt he?)

LadyIvanna wrote:

karmakaze wrote:thats right! why vote? when you can let the electoral college do it for you!

That is one thing that I was going to point out...while that, yes, I do vote, it is quite frustrating to know that the electorial college elects the Pres and not the majority...or that the Masons decide....regardless, I believe that our voting system has become uber corrupt....but I will still always exercize my RIGHT to vote.

i personally find it degrading. i can understand the need for the electoral college a long time ago, when most information was transferred by word of mouth, but now with the access to information that most people have i find the system insulting to my intelligence

karmakaze wrote: i can understand the need for the electorial college a long time ago, when most information was transfered by word of mouth, but now with the access to information that most people have i find the system insulting to my inteligence.

I wholeheatedly agree....I am quite capable of thinking for myself and do not need a bunch of politicians or whatever attempting to think for me or to try to decern what I "meant" by my vote.

Agreed. I was thinking about local elections, so I forgot that one.

A large number of issues that I dislike within the system are federal laws.

Voting locally won't make much of a difference in those things.

It makes a huge difference - in time. Those local people go on to be Federal people.