An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right
Get out there! Your ballots are the difference between tomorrow’s article being one that starts your day with a celebratory hot chocolate, or coffee and Excedrin!
cos – abstaining doesn’t do anything. Write in a candidate, vote for a third party, run yourself. Nothing can change if you do nothing. Inaction isn’t a stand against anything.
I grew up in Illinois when the Daley political machine in Chicago could determine the way the electoral votes of the entire state went, he was called the kingmaker for good reason, as Hubert Humphrey found out. I grew up thinking that politics was corrupt and your vote did not count, that elections were determined by big city bosses. When I moved to Colorado and saw real elections that could go either way I became politically active. It is my experience in Illinois that make me so skeptical of all political power in the hands of one party, and how power concentrated in one political party means corruption at the very least, and a virtual [Daley] dictatorship at worst. Don’t ever think that Daley can’t be reincarnated in some form again, this is a freedom that should never be taken for granted.
Done. My home state of Colorado has early voting, voter’s choice or electronic or paper ballots, requires no more identification than a utility bill (or similar) and requires a paper trail on electronic voting machines. And it’s still considered a potential problem state:
DENVER Some voting computers were certified for use in Colorado after only about 15 minutes of security checks by an official with no formal training in computer science, according to a newly released deposition.
On September 7, 2006, Secretary [of State] Dennis adopted a new rule (rule 46) that would allow votes cast for a drop-out candidate to be given to a replacement candidate.
Voted this morning. Turnout is reportedly high here in Georgia, despite the rain. More like a Presidential election, according to the poll workers.
No problems with out Diebold voting machines down here, but then we’ve been using them for a few years now and they’ve been reliable. I prefer the old scanatron ballots we used to have, but we as a state are stuck with what “King Roy” Barnes decreed us to have.
‘cos – abstaining doesn’t do anything. Write in a candidate, vote for a third party, run yourself. Nothing can change if you do nothing. Inaction isn’t a stand against anything.’
This is part of the problem, not the solution. It’s why the Ds and Rs keep control- puppet-think like this. Wow, now Pelosi runs the House. There’s gonna be GREAT things now. In two years the zombies that vote will bitch that nothing has changed and re-elect the R’s. The carousel never ends until people stand up and do something, like boycott a corrupt system that does nothing in the long run.
Seconded!
Get out there! Your ballots are the difference between tomorrow’s article being one that starts your day with a celebratory hot chocolate, or coffee and Excedrin!
Oh, jeez, is that today? Thanks for the reminder, Joe, I almost forgot.
9th in my district!
let me ammend that – 9th at my polling place.
Only if there is someone worth voting for. It is patriotic to abstain when you have to choose between unworthy candidates.
Thanks for the tip!!
cos – abstaining doesn’t do anything. Write in a candidate, vote for a third party, run yourself. Nothing can change if you do nothing. Inaction isn’t a stand against anything.
I grew up in Illinois when the Daley political machine in Chicago could determine the way the electoral votes of the entire state went, he was called the kingmaker for good reason, as Hubert Humphrey found out. I grew up thinking that politics was corrupt and your vote did not count, that elections were determined by big city bosses. When I moved to Colorado and saw real elections that could go either way I became politically active. It is my experience in Illinois that make me so skeptical of all political power in the hands of one party, and how power concentrated in one political party means corruption at the very least, and a virtual [Daley] dictatorship at worst. Don’t ever think that Daley can’t be reincarnated in some form again, this is a freedom that should never be taken for granted.
Done. My home state of Colorado has early voting, voter’s choice or electronic or paper ballots, requires no more identification than a utility bill (or similar) and requires a paper trail on electronic voting machines. And it’s still considered a potential problem state:
Check for problems in your state at votetrustusa.org
Voted this morning. Turnout is reportedly high here in Georgia, despite the rain. More like a Presidential election, according to the poll workers.
No problems with out Diebold voting machines down here, but then we’ve been using them for a few years now and they’ve been reliable. I prefer the old scanatron ballots we used to have, but we as a state are stuck with what “King Roy” Barnes decreed us to have.
‘cos – abstaining doesn’t do anything. Write in a candidate, vote for a third party, run yourself. Nothing can change if you do nothing. Inaction isn’t a stand against anything.’
This is part of the problem, not the solution. It’s why the Ds and Rs keep control- puppet-think like this. Wow, now Pelosi runs the House. There’s gonna be GREAT things now. In two years the zombies that vote will bitch that nothing has changed and re-elect the R’s. The carousel never ends until people stand up and do something, like boycott a corrupt system that does nothing in the long run.