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[zeroradius]

Morning CodeCall,

Yesterday as all who live in the U.S.A are aware was election day. A friend of mine said to me that any one who is old enough to vote but doesn't are "idiots". I personally do not vote and it is my right as an american not to. I believe that if you don't study up on the issues and candidates (and i mean all of them not just the ones your interested in, and i mean actually study don't just listen to the smear campaigns) then you should not vote because you do more harm than good.

So do you vote? whats your take on those who do not?

[mrlemke]

You know, you don't have to vote on everything on the ballot. I skipped a couple I couldn't find information on. This was my first time voting, and it was fun. I can wait until the next election. B)

I can see what your friend means though. A lot of people died for rights like this, and some people complain about what happens in elections even though they didn't vote.

[WingedPanther]

I vote. Here in SC we got Alvin Greene as the Democrat candidate for Senator because people didn't know who they were voting for. They thought they were voting for a musician during the primaries, and we became a laughing stock.

[zeroradius]

@daniel - I did not know you could skip stuff. I still don't know enough to vote. My personnel opinion is that people fought and died to give me the right to make my own choices and my choice is not to vote if i don't have a deep understanding of the issues.

@wp - lol thats funny in a schadenfreude kind of way. That also proves my point a bit about not voting if you don't know what your talking about. I hope he turns out to be good anyway.

[WingedPanther]

Fortunately, he lost (badly) to DeMint, and all we have to worry about is his new comic book.

[lor]

I was just signed up for my country's election roll so I can vote in 2011, I will most likely vote when the next election comes around.
I don't really mind people who don't vote, doesn't really bother me. There are two main parties in my country, National and Labour, both have been in parliament before and both have done well. I think it's safe to assume that either or will do fine. The small parties will never get in unless we have a burst of hippies or Maoris, but until that day, I am content with whoever!

[DEViANT]

People who do not vote have no right to complain about the conditions in the country. Thats how I see it in anyway. I vote

[BlaineSch]

I agree. I hear all the time that it's everyone's duty to vote. I believe people should vote, but if you know nothing about what you are voting for you are doing more harm then good because you are either quickly looking over it while voting or just hearing those "say anything" campaigns.

For example I heard an ad saying that a proposition was going to raise funding on a per-student level so it won't be the lowest state in the surrounding area. The ad was "pro-school" or "pro-future" or something, however after looking over the whole thing I realized it was increasing the funding by laying off a ton of people now who were employed by the state government. Very deceptive.

[RichM]

I agree that it is everyone's right to vote. I only vote on issues I am familiar with though. Like it was stated previously you can skip things. It makes me feel good to know I voted on at least something, after doing my research on it. I hope you decide to vote in the next election.