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Jimzz

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Oct 23, 2012
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not yet
prob wont, I don't have any idea who is running or what they are running for

Please vote!!! If you don't know who to vote for then vote for a 3rd party person that is going to lose anyways. Make it hard for the 2 major parties to keep so much control they ignore you and others.

I'm voting 3rd party as 1 party has my state pretty much won. I don't want either party to get to big. And if they are going to win I want them to at least make sure to know they could lose next time.
 

JamesV

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Voted this morning. Democrat, but voted for two Republicans; I'll take a proven crook over a crook only with promises.

Just glad the political ads, phone calls, and mail spam will be over now.
 

ultimatebob

Lifer
Jul 1, 2001
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I voted, but I don't pretend to think that my vote really matters in Connecticut. The Democrats almost always win here.
 

Apple Of Sodom

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No, I don't beleive voting is effective and only gives the fools who do vote an illusion that they had a say in things (or gives them the ability to say "well, I didn't vote for him!")

Voting is a right, just like the right to bear arms. Why do people get so upset when someone like me doesn't exercise the right to vote, meanwhile they haven't exercised their right to own a gun?
 

clamum

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I was going to before work but I didn't fucking get up early enough. I just have such of a fuck of a time getting out of bed each morning. Doesn't help getting 4.5 - 6 hours of sleep (the latter at the very most) each night I guess.

Hopefully I'll get to later tonight just before polls close.

STRAIGHT SCUMBUM FTW
 

highland145

Lifer
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No, I don't beleive voting is effective and only gives the fools who do vote an illusion that they had a say in things (or gives them the ability to say "well, I didn't vote for him!")
The local crap matters like the 1 cent they want to stick us with.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Jun 19, 2004
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No, I don't beleive voting is effective and only gives the fools who do vote an illusion that they had a say in things (or gives them the ability to say "well, I didn't vote for him!")

Voting is a right, just like the right to bear arms. Why do people get so upset when someone like me doesn't exercise the right to vote, meanwhile they haven't exercised their right to own a gun?

So, you're saying you don't vote because you believe it's ineffective which guarantees your vote is ineffective. Now, if only there was a way to make policy makers take your beliefs into consideration.
 

Jimzz

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Oct 23, 2012
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Nope. Lesser of 2 evils is still evil. Same shit..different people..or the same..doesnt matter.

Then vote 3rd party/write in. Hell just slide a blank ballot into the machine if you can't vote 3rd party.

If enough people that did not vote did this both parties would have to change more. Instead its person D vs person R and ignore the others on the ballot.
 

SunnyD

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Jan 2, 2001
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Then vote 3rd party/write in. Hell just slide a blank ballot into the machine if you can't vote 3rd party.

If enough people that did not vote did this both parties would have to change more. Instead its person D vs person R and ignore the others on the ballot.

This serves no purpose unless 3rd party somehow manages to get a majority vote. If you take away arbitrary X number of votes equally from both Y and Z, the outcome is still the same. If you dilute X amongst a dozen different write-ins, but are still equally taken away from Y and Z, the outcome is still the same. There are some permutations of which blank/write-in balloting could actually be detrimental as a whole. But generally speaking, that ghost candidate hardly ever wins.

As such nothing changes. Just wasted effort without some sort of real organization.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

IN MEMORIAM
Jun 19, 2004
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This serves no purpose unless 3rd party somehow manages to get a majority vote. If you take away arbitrary X number of votes equally from both Y and Z, the outcome is still the same. If you dilute X amongst a dozen different write-ins, but are still equally taken away from Y and Z, the outcome is still the same. There are some permutations of which blank/write-in balloting could actually be detrimental as a whole. But generally speaking, that ghost candidate hardly ever wins.

As such nothing changes. Just wasted effort without some sort of real organization.

So, you want change but, aren't willing to put any effort in? I'm sorry, you lost me at voting takes effort.
 

SunnyD

Belgian Waffler
Jan 2, 2001
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So, you want change but, aren't willing to put any effort in? I'm sorry, you lost me at voting takes effort.

I'm not willing to run a campaign and try to get people to vote for me (the only person I'd trust not to fuck things up), so yeah - I'm not willing to put the effort in. Of course neither is anybody else, so I'm not voting.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

IN MEMORIAM
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I'm not willing to run a campaign and try to get people to vote for me (the only person I'd trust not to fuck things up), so yeah - I'm not willing to put the effort in. Of course neither is anybody else, so I'm not voting.

Thank you for staying in your basement and making the world a better place.
 

Jimzz

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Oct 23, 2012
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This serves no purpose unless 3rd party somehow manages to get a majority vote. If you take away arbitrary X number of votes equally from both Y and Z, the outcome is still the same. If you dilute X amongst a dozen different write-ins, but are still equally taken away from Y and Z, the outcome is still the same. There are some permutations of which blank/write-in balloting could actually be detrimental as a whole. But generally speaking, that ghost candidate hardly ever wins.

As such nothing changes. Just wasted effort without some sort of real organization.


That's incorrect actually in most states. In VA for example if a 3rd party candidate gets 10% of the vote they get on all ballots for several years and also invited to the debates.

Each state may be different but if a 3rd party gets enough votes, even losing, it can make a huge difference.
 
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