You don't have to worry, many dead people that are voting will make up for you. Also, the voters with fake ID and illegals that cast ballots won't disappoint you either.
Then we have the fake mail in ballots to relieve your concerns and also the folks that mess with the counting of ballots.
You are covered.
A person should get as many votes as the amount they pay in taxes. Like a company board election.
That old saying, "democracy requires an educated electorate" comes to mind. That doesn't mean an elite, ivy-league education. It means you've taken the time to learn how the questions on the ballot may affect you and your community, and genuinely want to contribute to a better society.
If you can't do that, I'd rather you just stay home.
And don't even get me started about those who just vote a straight party line, and support every member of their party, no matter what they do or how damaging their policies are to their constituents.
Spot on! How come they managed to hoodwink the rest of the not so rich folk to vote for them also?
My dad hit the beaches on D-Day, was willing to die for his country. I will always honor his sacrifice to our nation by voting in our free country.
I will vote to the day I die. It is one of the greatest privileges I have.
I am retiring from paying taxes. A single tax payer doesn't count much.
AN OPEN LETTER TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MIGHT NOT VOTE
I recently read this article in New York Magazine, 12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote, in which twenty-somethings listed the reasons they probably won't vote in the 2018 midterms. To put it mildly, I was disappointed. I'm sure that they are not universally representative of people their age, but it concerns me enough that I feel it necessary to write this letter to those of you who may think to join them.
When I was in my twenties, I was serving in the U.S. Navy aboard ballistic missile submarines. Periodically, along with about 119 other young men, I would cram myself into a dark, dank and smelly metal coffin and go deep underwater for literally months at a time. Yes, that's literally months without sunlight, fresh air, fresh food or any contact with the outside world. No calls, no texts, no emails, no internet. No way to know anything about whether our families were okay or not. With grim regularity, we practiced shooting our 16 ballistic missiles, knowing that if a real launch order ever came, we would be complicit in killing tens of millions of people. It was physically, mentally and morally grueling - and dangerous even in the best of circumstances.
Why did I do it? Maybe it sounds corny to you, but I loved this country and wanted to defend it against nuclear annihilation, so that, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, "government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." I know it has become trendy to say "thank you for your service," and I appreciate the sentiment. But I really don't need any accolades. If you truly wanted to thank me, you would just go vote. I don’t care who you choose, just vote. It surely would help an old man feel that the sacrifice of the best years of his young adult life was worthwhile.
But even if you don't vote to indulge Abraham Lincoln and me, you should still do it for yourselves. The future belongs to those who show up and participate. If you don't vote, you are letting the people who do – like me – make all the choices for your future. I'd like to think that I'm a reasonable guy and would make wise choices for the benefit of all Americans, but we need to face the fact that I may not. You and I are likely to have very different needs and interests. I am a financially stable old white guy. I no longer need to figure out how to get a job with decent pay and benefits, pay off student loans, get a mortgage, find a loving partner, raise children, save for their college or save for retirement. The currently rotting bridges and highways will probably stand up long enough to get me to the end of my stay here. Neither will I be here when the seas rise and the land burns. If our society should devolve into a Hobbesian war of all against all, I won't have to fight in it. But you will. And if you'd like to have a say in how that all turns out, you really need to vote.
Sincerely,
(Gumby)
In 2018, I read a NY Magazine article about young people who explained all the rather pathetic reasons they weren't planning to vote in the upcoming election. I wrote this open letter in response and posted it on Facebook. While the majority of you are not young, and hence the message may resonate differently for you, I still believe what I wrote then. Please vote.
You don't have to worry, many dead people that are voting will make up for you. Also, the voters with fake ID and illegals that cast ballots won't disappoint you either.
Then we have the fake mail in ballots to relieve your concerns and also the folks that mess with the counting of ballots.
You are covered.
I understand that your motivation is to stir up a reaction from the board, and you are well within your rights with your position, but your post makes me sad.
In 2018, I read a NY Magazine article about young people who explained all the rather pathetic reasons they weren't planning to vote in the upcoming election. I wrote this open letter in response and posted it on Facebook. While the majority of you are not young, and hence the message may resonate differently for you, I still believe what I wrote then. Please vote.
I vote every election, don't try to dodge jury duty but I do think my taxes are too high. (Due to wasteful spending)I vote every election, don't try to dodge jury duty and don't think my taxes are too high.
"We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures."
-- John Adams
"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual--or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."
-- Samuel Adams
"Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption."
-- James Garfield
"The Americans are the first people whom Heaven has favored with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing the forms of government under which they should live."
-- John Jay
I still vote. Once in a great while, there's actually a choice or two on a ballot - not often. Realistically, this is a one party town. If you are for that party, you don't need to vote. If you are not of that party, there's no point.
Still, I vote. I absolutely am against mandatory voting, but I'm almost as passionate that I should vote, even though my vote rarely could even conceivably make a difference.
If we all give up and don't vote, NOTHING can change. If we DO vote, it's still a theoretical that something might change. YMMV
Don't vote = Don't complain.