to all US citizensFollow

Nov 2 is election day. I am asking for all of you to please get out and vote. It is very important to all of us who live here. I know this is off the topic of these forums but I have to try and get the point across to vote.

Edited, Fri Oct 29 15:03:29 2004 by Magvius

In this form it will not turn out to be political war that it is right now in reality. And no rate downs either please.

I'm moving to Canada, ***** this country!

Ugh... I live in this country and I'm not voting.

Just because you express your right to vote.. doesn't mean our votes decide the election.

Everyone has a Voice and an Opinion and the only way to use it is the Vote on Tuesday so Plz no matter what you Bias is Plz Vote Ty all

Edited, Fri Oct 29 16:13:05 2004 by Machtaru

This isn't just a presidential election. You're going to be voting for local officers, propositions and initiatives that directly affect you and your community. Also, try to get informed. You'll be hard pressed to find an ubiased source of information so research, listen to both sides of the issues and make up your own decision. Vote and vote often.

and yes, i think the electoral college is outdated and needs to be changed to a popular vote.

i know i said i wasn't going to be adding anything..
so sue me ^_^ that's it. for realios.


Edited, Fri Oct 29 16:31:46 2004 by Kakashisan

I dont want get started on the Electoral College and how a president got voted in but lost by 500,000votes on the popular vote but it is our democratic system i guess. I do agree that there should not be one. All votes as like local offices should be on popular vote only

They are all decieptful crooks. I vote for me.

/nod

The electoral process was put in place to prevent the bickering between the States. The United States of America was born out of a league of semi independent states that guarded their rights with jealousy. The electoral process is there to prevent the typical "vote for someone because he's from my region" mentality. Even though people do that now anyways, (hence the candidate's state almost, with a few exceptions, always voted for their candidate). The electoral process is created to lessen the blow from that effect. Also Each States, is designed simlarly to the Federal states with a head of state (governor) and legislature. The United States is not one country like France or Great Britain, we focused more on regional independence.

Hence look at Electoral process as 50 countries putting in a vote for a leader using local popular votes as decision makers. True this will bring up the strategy of discarding the smaller states and focus more on the bigger states. But States, as selfish as they does not want another state's popular votes to influenced their own decision. Hence californian who voted for a candidate does not want THEIR outcome affected by someone from Rhode Island. This is not true democracy yes, but its one of the device used to balance the power accross a very vast nation.

Edited, Fri Oct 29 18:45:42 2004 by Bowser

And thank God the electoral college was in place at that time! Thank God, THANK GOD!

And do you know that some democrats wouldn't have been pres without it as well?

Vote. Vote because you have the privilege to do so. Vote because you have a responsibility to be involved in your own future.

To those saying "Don't vote if you don't know the facts" I wish that attitude were criminal. I will guarantee to you none of us have all the facts. We have the propaganda we choose to embrace and the propaganda we choose to discard, while very very few -- mostly those who do it as a part of their job -- dig deep enough to get better than talking points and morale speeches.

I submit to you that none of us know much, but we judge based on character and like-minded values, we judge based on hope and on guesses and the influence of people whose opinions we respect. Not on facts. Facts are difficult to obtain in a blog society.

Vote even if you don't have all the facts. Vote even if you're not a staunch supporter on one side or the other. Vote even when people tell you not to, because often these people mean to do you harm.

I'm not registered to vote, and I don't think I want to vote this time around. I don't trust either of these men. They've blown this so out of proportion that the only thing I've gathered is

Bush is a warmonger, money spending, self righteous egomaniac
Kerry is a hippie liberal, a coward, and arrogant as all get out
Nader is old, and is just running for the hell of it

Obviously there's more to this election than this, but this is all I've gathered from commercials and the debates (which I didn't watch too intently).

I don't want to vote if I don't understand what the candidates' standpoints are here. They're doing nothing but lying and mudslinging and milking 9/11 for all its worth. God bless politics.



Edited, Fri Oct 29 22:39:10 2004 by seraphimhunter