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Voting went good
After reading the Michigan Voters Guide cover to cover along with various online resources I finally felt as if I knew what I needed to know.
I almost didn’t vote at all but after my co-workers explained to me the terror that’s going on in other countries and how much they would give just to vote on the powers that be. It made me think twice about sitting comfortably in my living room watching the Simpsons instead of voting.
I’m not going to tell ya who all I voted for but I will say that some of the people I gave a thumbs up to are now where they wanted to be.
Now I’m just waiting for my thank you cards.
posted on November 7, 2002 | 8:33 AM EST
Add to the discussion.
do you vote at a national level?
this was my first time voting— i was excited :) glad to hear you voted as well.
I am confused as why you thought twice. If anything, I would think that you would appreciate how much of a privilige it is to vote, and wouldn’t even think twice about voting.
Yup - I do appreciate the privilige of voting. However it’s just that - a privilige, not a law or demand on us.
I was thinking about not voting because I didn’t have even the smallest clue on what was going on. I had no reason to go and just vote for something I had no idea about. That’s worse than actually voting.
Voting mostly gives you the right to bitch. If you didn’t vote then you can’t bitch about what you like and don’t like.
ahhh voting gives you the right to bitch, but so does leaving ;-)
i prefer the latter
Uhm.. did anyone watch the last presidential elections we had? I certainly have the right to bitch if i don’t vote, because your vote doesn’t matter.
It’s our old friend corporate rule.. electing our leaders .. for our own good of course.
This wasn’t a presidential election. THIS was an election where ONE vote does count. THIS was the election where you could have exercised your right to vote to get people in on the level that certainly effects those around you and yourself. THIS was the election that puts people in positions who may later get in the senate, etc. who will perhaps one day BE that presidential elect. THIS was where it all begins. If you don’t vote here, you have no basis of complaint for other elections, because you were nowhere in sight when the foundation was laid. You can’t just come along and put the top card on a house of cards, watch it flop, and then say ‘why bother?’ But when you build that stacked house painstakingly from the bottom up, you place ever so carefully that top card. You have an investment in it. I really believe that by not voting, it is a cop out. It is a right people have fought and died for. You have every right NOT to vote, and I have every right to DISAGREE with you. But by throwing around your right to NOT vote, what affectiveness, what good, does it do for your country? One vote does count. It also gives you respect. I wish you’d reconsider. And thank you to all the readers that voted. You did make a difference. Even if your candidate lost ~ you made an impact. You made a conscious choice. You cared.
Oh believe me I care. Probably too much.
Our views on how the world works are obviously different.
I don’t know who you voted for, but I read something in the Sentinel that turned my stomach. I can’t believe that people voted for Granholm just because she is a woman. That was an informed decision!
I haven’t voted yet and I don’t think I’m in the wrong by doing so. I believe voting is a right and privilege which gives us the choice to practice - CHOICE not DUTTY. By not voting I don’t think I’m saying I don’t care or don’t have a right to engage in further votes or elections - by not voting I don’t agree that I’m not caring for those who died and paid the price so I can sit at home and not vote. I have a problem when it comes to something of choice and opinion that people get so wrapped up in what others are or aren’t doing that in turn they’ve maybe forgotten why they too have the privilege in the first place.
sounds to me like you just didn’t feel like getting out of that chair and registering.
I just got back from an 8 1/2 hour drive and about 2 seconds from flopping into my bed. A couple things I wanted to say before I did though.
If you don’t want to vote - Don’t. We all have our reasons for why we do the things we do. I don’t look down on anyone who hasn’t voted, in any way.
However don’t expect to have any sort of voice over what various candidates may be doing right or wrong - other than simple annoyance. You’ll just be the kid on the playground trying to impress everyone by eating his/her own snot.
Everyone here, so far, hasn’t become that person but if I hear that you didn’t vote but are opinionated on what is going on then you will be ignored - you made no effort to change things when you had the chance. However little the chance you think you may have had.
I basically voted to have the simple right to bitch when/if I want to.
I was going to try and explain why i don’t vote.
You don’t really want to hear it anyways.
One thing i’ve never been able to figure out about this whole system is -
Since when does Majority really make the choice the right one.
Just because there’s more of us over here with our hands in the air doesn’t make what we desire the best course of action. Nor is it right that it leave the other side being dragged along for four years until we get “the honor” of doing it all over again.
“Since when does Majority really make the choice the right one.” - Dan I will agree with you here. We don’t always make the best decision as a nation (sadly). I heard a little story the other day that alot of people voted for Jennifer Granholm just because she was a woman. This is not a smart idea/way to vote.
You don’t vote for someone just because they are in the minority.
However, what would be a better system - other than asking what the majority would like.
On another note:
I’m somewhat curious on why you didn’t vote dan.
To be honest .. I didn’t vote because i doubt the system.
To participate in something i don’t believe in would show
a lack of integrity .
It’s as simple as that.
I however still reserve the right to complain, wether people ignore me because i didn’t vote doesn’t really matter. It doesn’t make my opinion less valid.
As to what would be a better system .. That’s tough.
No matter how the decision is made somebody is going to disagree.
dan Says:
do you vote at a national level?