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Still, I read the voter pamphlets with interest because it's kind of funny (in a depressing "What the fuck are you people doing with my tax money" way) to see the lies trying to justify each sides arguments and the puff biographies on candidates.
Why is that?
Eli is not asking "Tell me your votes" but "Why didn't you vote?"
It's a question and people are free to ignore it.
Where in the Constitution does it say that Eli can't ask "Why didn't you vote?" Huh? Tell me.
Mind, these are valid concerns, but his reaction thus far was "fuck it, I won't vote, but I'll bitch about it on Facebook instead of bringing my concerns to someone who would do something about it."
A lot of people didn't vote in my area (Minnesota) because some employers are dicks and, despite the laws against this, don't give people time off to vote when the polls are open. We only this cycle switched to no-reason-needed early voting, so no one knew about it.
Passing the pot law was part of the Trilateral Commission's Plan to make Americans stupid so that it can take over.
Check it out. The people who didn't vote were all stoned. The ones who did vote were drunk.
I hate our new voting tech. Filling in the stupid ovals on the paper for the scanner with a pen is fiddly and time-consuming and I have no idea what happens if I don't fill it in enough or stray outside the oval, or how much is enough to validate or invalidate my vote. The lever machines were quick and definitive. "Click, click, click... KLUNK," and you were all done, with no doubt as to whether you did your part right.
We were still using those up to about two years ago. I miss them.... sniff!
I blame the Democrats. For YEARS (again, perhaps my entire life), Republicans have driven all the debates, have driven all the tone, and have driven all the VOCABULARY. "Liberal" is a bad word. Heck, "Elite" is a bad word - THAT'S how bad it's gotten. Through it all, no candidate actually cares enough to push for progress - they all run away from Obama and any progressive ideals, trying to be come conservatives because they're scared of losing the moderate vote. Well, guess what - as you've found out, if you do that enough, you discourage your liberal "base". And don't get me started on Obama himself, who has accomplished many things but on the same time has gone back on so many campaign promises with regard to war, civil liberties, torture, etc. that he's contributed to the cynicism himself.
Find me a single Democrat this cycle who campaigned on actual achievements rather than campaigning defensively. I'm sick of the whole process, and have completely lost faith in the ability of things to get better. Unless a ballot was mailed to my apartment and it was as easy as making a few swipes of a pen to vote (which it was, and it is), I'm not sure I could have mustered enough fucks to give to vote.
Misinformed or lying.
But at least not a comical ignorant bigot like you.
why?
1. he refuses to change his voting address to his current residence.
2. he's in med school and is "busy".
3. he doesn't know where to buy a stamp.
not that it would matter much anyway: we're in McDermott's district.
you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Everyone I know voted, or at least was tired enough of my hectoring to lie to me, except the bitcoin enthusiast, whose insistence on not voting until electronic identity measures are instituted actually wore me out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_mach…
Ah. So it's lying, not misinformed.
Baghdad Jim's district?
My condolences.
Immediately after voting ended, poll workers posted a printout of that precinct's votes. We had spotters at each precinct, and they phoned in the results.
where do you live, Reichert's? condolences.
Want to look somebody up? See http://www.soundpolitics.com/voterlookup…
Yep. Our corporate overlords own the government but not those courageous democrats, clear voices for the people! But they own the Republican party and propagandize their lies through the press! And they own the voting apparatus, criminally tilting it republican! It's all because Republicans hate brown people and people who chose poverty! Let's see- what talking points from Huff Po and the other clowncar sites did I miss?
Do facts matter to you at all? For instance dems pull as much corporate money for elections as Republicans. And in no case has a link between policy and lobbying or campaign contributions been established, that didn't result in prosecution. The press in this country has a strong liberal bias, not a conservative one. This despite Americans being largely centrist or center right.
So really your problem is with your fellow citizens. Who aren't "low information" fyi, they just don't buy the lefty line of obvious bs.
It should be legally mandated that no more than two ballots get sent out to voters per year. The levy blowhards will just have to get their precious babies included on the general election ballot.
You might let your stepson know that he doesn't actually have to put a stamp on his ballot. USPS is supposed to deliver them whether they're stamped or not.
I don't know if it makes you feel better, but that link you posted has me at the address I moved away from last year and the address my boyfriend moved away from two years ago. Even if you registered, it would take your family a couple of years to catch up with you.
For the record, I voted mainly because it's just so easy to do so here in WA. If I was commuting to a regular 10hr a day job and had to go out of my way to a polling place? Eh, maybe, maybe not.
Nationwide vote by mail should be the norm, with polling stations left for same day registrations of the people who just moved.
For those that didn't like any of the candidates, vote for the least objectionable. If you think not voting sends a message, you're dead wrong. The winner doesn't care, the loser doesn't care, and the media doesn't care. All you proved is that you don't understand how the system works.
For those that say they don't want the uninformed to vote, I have bad news. The most uninformed, those that get disinformation from Fox News, Breitbart, hate radio, and Alex Jones are already voting. We need regular people who are mildly uninformed to counter the actively stupid.
For those that say your vote doesn't count, when you don't vote, you vote for the status quo, whether you intend to or not. Write in a better candidate, don't vote for anyone in a particular race if you want, but you should vote and if you don't, you're a bad person and you should feel bad.
For those of you too lazy to vote (really most if the above since these are really merely excuses), you can take a few minutes away from jacking off to Jennifer Lawrence's photos or watching "Honey Boo Boo" or whatever the holy fuck it is that you are doing that you find more important than your family, your friends, your neighbors, your city, and your state.
In short, you suck at life.
EVERY MAJOR NEWSPAPER in America endorsed the invasion of Iraq.
The AM Airwaves are nearly 100% RW Talk.
Cable News? Even MSNBC tilts right in the morning.
The only thing "liberal" about the press is when they report a fact. those have a well-known liberal bias.
I myself like voting in person on election day but a system like Washington has would help people like her.
But I voted anyway out of obligation and nothing more. And I resent it. I feel like all I am doing is legitimizing a bloated rich mans pile of money.
Left of me or right of you aren't what I'm discussing.
By every metric news media are left of most Americans. Candidates and policies endorsed, the choice of things to cover and language to do so, and the edtorial agenda generally are left of most Americans.
And what entertainment tilts toward? Why does Fox with it's slight right bias have many more folks watching it than MSNBC? Why des talk radio skew overwhelmingly to th r right? Could it be that given a choice Americans choose conservative voices?
If you asked yourselves why that might be, you'd understand your fellow citizens a lot better. And hint- disagreement with you @51 doesn't mean ignorant or stupid necessarily.
i'm socially liberal but fiscally more conservative. i'm at odds with myself over what ought to happen in the city/state/country. i want to help people but i don't want to be taken advantage of. i don't mind paying taxes but it gets harder and harder to swallow as my rent/food/transportation/medical costs go up (but my salary doesn't), and i'll never have anyone helping me because i do just well enough.
does my vote really matter? i've seen that it doesn't.
Phuckawf.
In the races where there was a Republican running unopposed, and in some of the races where there were two Republicans and no Democrat (and there were many), I simply added myself as a write-in. I think I got about nine votes this year, including County Prosecutor, Sheriff, and Clerk.
(no its not me)
Do your own homework.
But it's just a fact that mainstream media in this country leans left of most Americans. Not on every issue, but in the aggregate. It's unsurprising. New York, LA, ad the Peoples Reublic of Seattle are the places large media is located, and these urban toilets lean left. So the pool of people to manage and staff the New York Times, the major television broadcast companies and so on are probably going to be te delayed adolescent type liberals are. If the rest of the country gets to try and sift through their biases for some accurate idea of what's happening, too bad.
But denying that overwhelming liberal bias is just silly.
The political leaning of the average employee has little to do with the content, especially when the employees are liberal as they tend to be more fact based. It's the few right wingers at the top who call the shots and are not afraid to skew coverage to their ideological leanings.
You get an F.
Non-traditional residential addresses/homeless voters
The Washington Constitution doesn’t require a "residence" as a condition of voting as long as a person meets all other registration requirements. (Article VI Section1)
Voters who lack a traditional residential address can register at the shelter, park, motor home, intersection or other identifiable location they consider their residence. This location will be used to determine which precinct they will vote in. (RCW 29A.08.112 effective 2005)
Along with your residential address, you must also provide a valid mailing address. An accurate, valid mailing address is essential in order to receive ballots and election information on time. This can include a post office box, address of a friend or relative, shelter, or general delivery at a local post office.
Quoted from: kingcounty.gov/
elections/register/
address.aspx
#nontraditional
The Democrats are just a different flavored brand of corporotocracy, granted the better one, but I'll be damned if I give an illusion of participation to the politics of the "New Gilded Age."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has the best advice for the current political structure in the US, though it was first given in the context of the Soviet Union. "Don't believe them, don't fear them, don't ask anything of them."
Don't vote, organize.
I have voted in every general election in an even-numbered year since I came of voting age, and I'm not about to stop now, no matter how crummy a year it is.
You are the textbook definition of a sociopath.
There's not a dime's difference between the parties? Yes, I recall all the republicans for sane sex marriage, universal health care, and clean energy.
Oh...wait...
Yep. Rght there in the DSM it defines a sociopath as slightly right of center. Or, well, not.
Words to liberals don't even have tangential reference to their definitions, a thing which frankly puzzles me.
Like most beings, your life will be objectively meaningless, as organisms fold back into the scheme of things upon death, and our species is not to be the eternal stewards of this earthly prison. But where most of us--liberal or conservative, religious or irreligious, possessed of good taste in music or given to listening to the Eagles--find some subjective meaning in compassion, charity, the good will of our fellows and, yes, vigorous, honest, courageous debate (I know you know it when you see it--I can tell because that's precisely when you disappear) with our opponents. You forswear all of that for cheap shots and the shallow appearance of dominance.
I'd pity you, but I doubt you have the reflective capacity to even know what an empty shitpile your life is. So I'll save my pity for those whose happiness and well-being is in your charge--your family, your employees, your neighbors, your community. And when next I sit at the gohonzon to chant, I will offer up my hopes that they all find solace in this world that you have rejected, and, ultimately, that you find your own twisted satisfaction in the empty husk of man that you will be when they become wise enough to walk away, like hermit crabs from a cold and empty shell.
Under democratic control, fracking has developed without any meaningful regulatory oversight. How would this be different under a republican administration? US coal production in 2012 is 1.016 Billion short tons....a drop from 1.171 billion short tons in 2008. Due to coninued free trade policies, these gain are offset by increased exports of coal to other countries from 60 million short tons to 120 million short tons. We have allowed American capital to flee to other countries order to evade our taxes, laws, and regulations. This has remained constant regardless of who is in charge.
Gay marriage is a good thing. +1 for democrats. Yay legal weed. +2.
On the negative side, would be all the wars, spying, corporate welfare, continuing Reagan's trend of deregulation and privatization, and ongoing drug war/police militarization. One side is a shit sandwich. The other side is eating a shit sandwich whilst high and gay married. Excuse my lack of enthusiasm.
The same reason I'm supposed erroneously to be a bigot, a racist, homophobic (whch doesn't actually exist so that was tricky) and a closet faggot than. Oh, and in your hurricane strength windiness, also a wife and child abuser, friendless and at odds with my family AND bad at my job? Because you don't like my opinions?
Basically like all radical lefties English is a playground for you in which words meanings are irrelevant.
I can see how life threatening illness or injury, loss of ones home or other personal tragedy could cause someone to miss an election, but mostly what I see here are excuses for being lazy, selfish, and STUPID. Why were there two Republican scoundrels on the ballot in Yakima 4th district? Because not enough sane people bothered to send in their primary ballot. Why did the most corrupt and evil caucus in the history of the US house of representatives get even more power? Reality voters stayed home. America doesn't need excuses, it needs Democrats to stick with it and vote every time.
How many times have we voted for a monorail? And where is it? Everyone wants municipal broadband, but who's championing it? We're told people don't speak out enough, but the complaints against Comcast arecalready a deafening roar.
So next time, unless there are one or two things I really care about on the ballet, I won't bother.