Provisional Ballots are the new Hanging Chads

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Gee, Dave, it's almost like you're implying a person would have to really study up and follow the issues to come to the conclusion that Bush is a horrible president.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd rather vote for candidates who will make our education system better than impose an intelligence standard for voting.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Ya been to smalltown America lately?

Anyway, I'm really speaking more about congress, judges, local representatives ... President gets plenty of coverage & most people probably have some kind of semi-informed opinion, right or wrong.

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I'd rather vote for candidates who will make our education system better than impose an intelligence standard for voting.
I'd like to think that the former will result in the latter not being necessary.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

exactly!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

BTW - "Intelligence standard" - I'm not speaking about a test of any sort - only the premise that if someone doesn't see the value in voting, then let them not vote, rather than having voter-registration drives that encourage apathetic people to cast uninformed votes.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link

if someone doesn't see the value in voting, they probably don't vote!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

and it's unfair to think that voter-registration drives are necessarily about "apathetic" people, though those people may certainly be uninformed (esp. about how to register to vote!). I also don't think, given the way things are in this country, that it's a sin to try to help uninformed or disadvantaged people. Perhaps if there was more initiative to that end, this country would be a better place.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

That's where door-to-door registration canvassing, Rock the Vote, etc.. come in. Those programs have value in that they put the spark in people's mind that they should think about voting - and may somewhat explain what the issues are .. But there are a lot of movements that kind of seem to shame people into voting - because "It's your right/privilege/duty.." But people should vote because they *want to change/keep leadership - not just because someone told them they're supposed to do it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't really speak to that as I'm not really familiar or aware of movements that shame people into voting. There's been a fair amount of shaming on ILE, of which I have been party to, but that's different.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

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