A public service announcement from el sicómoro...

[Tobiasly]

Originally posted by Undertoad
If you don't know who the candidates are, please don't vote.

If you got ALL your information about the candidates from TV commercials, please don't vote.

If you intend to vote the major party line, casting votes for candidates you're not familiar with, please don't vote.

Nah, you're all ate up there Tony. You don't have to be informed on all the issues to know who you want to vote for. Even if I didn't know all the Republicans running for office here personally, I could still vote party line and be pretty sure that my views were being represented better than if I didn't vote at all.

It doesn't matter why people vote the way they do. Candidates will try to persuade people based on what those people think is important, whether it's issues or a catchy little jingle.

If voting were only done by people thoroughly informed about the races, we would have a very small minority making decisions for the rest of us. Wanting to be informed about the races is a personal decision; that doesn't mean it should be a litmus test for whether people vote in the first place.

I changed people's votes today because I walked them from their car with an umbrella in the rain. Hey, if that's what they think is important in someone holding public office, then they have every right to vote that way.