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If someone like myself doesn't vote it is because there is no one that I would like as president amongst the candidates. so that is a vote. My non vote should be counted as a vote because I am one person amongst a number of people who won't vote for someone that I don't like. Of course there are people that don't vote because they are lazy, don't care, etc. But their non vote is still a vote and will be counted as someone who didn't vote for their own reason. When they count votes they are automatically counting non votes also.
Until there is a selection for "none of the above" placed on the ballot(s) not voting doesn't count.
Vote. Just don't vote for any of the clowns on the ballot, isn't there a write-in option? Voting for Mickey Mouse adds your ballot to the number of voters who didn't vote for a candidate. A drop in the ocean but it'd make me feel better anyway. Wouldn't it be fun to watch if the majority of the country's votes were in the "other" pile?
Every election since Kennedy has only been a lesser of two evils, and there hasn't been a real leader since Regan, and he wasn't much.
This current clown parade needs a reset. Religious extremists on one side, a wife who can't keep a phillandering husband home or a socialist on the other. Why vote.
Because one of the two WILL become president, and you'll have to live under his or her rule. So please choose the lesser of the two evils if you want to put it that way.
"If someone like myself doesn't vote it is because there is no one that I would like as president amongst the candidates."
The mayor of New York City was elected in an election with a 5% turnout. Five Percent! He ran on an anti-police platform. Look what happened in New York. We get what we deserve. Baltimore has a mayor that says criminals have to have room to destroy.
The word "citizen" used to mean something. Where I live, people wear their Sunday clothes to vote. They are aware of public affairs and budgets. Citizenship is a responsibility. It used to be taught in the schools.
If you do not like either parties which is easy to do , as the conditions of today are perplexing to say the least then vote for the one who does not have a party or the independent for your conscious sake
If you do not like either parties which is easy to do , as the conditions of today are perplexing to say the least then vote for the one who does not have a party or the independent for your conscious sake
If someone like myself doesn't vote it is because there is no one that I would like as president amongst the candidates. so that is a vote. My non vote should be counted as a vote because I am one person amongst a number of people who won't vote for someone that I don't like. Of course there are people that don't vote because they are lazy, don't care, etc. But their non vote is still a vote and will be counted as someone who didn't vote for their own reason. When they count votes they are automatically counting non votes also.
No, it's not voting.
If you're too lazy to vote for any of the 67 offices on a ballot because you don't like the candidates for one of those offices (that of President), that's simply not voting. If you're too lazy to write in the candidate of your choice for President instead of selecting one of the balloted candidates, that's simply not voting.
Bald isn't a hair color. And not voting isn't voting.
It'll never happen in my lifetime, but I'd LOVE to see an election that "booted out" all the incumbents. Why? The net effect would be that career politicians would end up having very short careers, and that would change the whole face of political activity in this country. It's my opinion that career politicians are the source of all evil, and that politics should be considered a form of voluntary service. Take the seniority out, and you take the money out. Take the money out, and most of the evil goes away.
My only other observation is, wouldn't it be interesting if they threw an election and nobody came? Would that send a message? Another thing that'll never happen in my lifetime....
The ability to vote is one of our greatest freedoms, and one of the things all those brave kids lose their lives fighting for me to be able to have....I vote in both big and small elections, always. I would feel awful if I didn't vote, I think it's one of our duties as American citizens, but that's JMO. Citizen's United has certainly taken a lot of the power away from us as individuals to choose our own leaders, but the alternative to me is to just give up. My vote says "I still count".
The mayor of New York City was elected in an election with a 5% turnout. Five Percent! He ran on an anti-police platform. Look what happened in New York.
24% of the registered voters turned out, and experts attribute the low turnout rate to everyone expecting a Democrat to win in NYC in 2013.
Mick
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