Why you should vote if you're not in a swing state
it's all one thing: Why you should vote if you're not in a swing state
It's true that, thanks to the Electoral College, if you're not in a swing state, you can't help elect or defeat a candidate. Vote anyway.
- There's a chance the polls are wrong. Students and cell phone users are the secret swing voters, because the polls are not designed to reflect their choices.
- Though the Electoral College obscures the sentiment of the American people, it can't hide it entirely. Bush may have been legally selected, but the American people rejected him by half a million recorded votes nationwide.
- This vote will tell the world whether the US supports Bush's policies or rejects them. The degree of support or rejection matters.
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Good points, well said. A few more might be:
1)Vote absentee, or early at the polls
2)Be prepared to wait if you are in a swing state.
Take food, water, a radio or reading material, a camp stool.
3)If challenged by anyone as to your right to vote, look for help, call for help, don't allow them to get away with it.
4)Make a day of it: take off work, tell family to fend for themselves until you get home, when you finish voting offer to help others(elderly:take their place in line so they can sit down until time to vote. Also, offer to drive people to the polls.)
This is the most important vote of our lifetimes. VOTE!
1)Vote absentee, or early at the polls
2)Be prepared to wait if you are in a swing state.
Take food, water, a radio or reading material, a camp stool.
3)If challenged by anyone as to your right to vote, look for help, call for help, don't allow them to get away with it.
4)Make a day of it: take off work, tell family to fend for themselves until you get home, when you finish voting offer to help others(elderly:take their place in line so they can sit down until time to vote. Also, offer to drive people to the polls.)
This is the most important vote of our lifetimes. VOTE!
The most important reason to vote regardless of the state you're in is to make sure that we avoid the controversy we had in the last election. For example, if voters in Bush's easy-win states in 2004 had turned out for Bush and not just blown the election off then he would have had a majority of the popular vote and the all the lawsuits and spurious complaints about the electoral system could have been avoided.
While not everyone agrees on who should be elected this year I think most of us agree that a constitutional crisis is probably a bad idea. Too few people understand why we have the electoral college and how our elections are actually supposed to work, and until we can educate them - assuming that's even possible - it's better not to upset the apple cart. And the way to do that is to go out and vote regardless of how big a lead one candidate or the other has in your state.
Dave
www.elitistpig.com
While not everyone agrees on who should be elected this year I think most of us agree that a constitutional crisis is probably a bad idea. Too few people understand why we have the electoral college and how our elections are actually supposed to work, and until we can educate them - assuming that's even possible - it's better not to upset the apple cart. And the way to do that is to go out and vote regardless of how big a lead one candidate or the other has in your state.
Dave
www.elitistpig.com
>>3)If challenged by anyone as to your right to vote, look for help, call for help, don't allow them to get away with it. <<
Also keep an eye out for people behaving suspiciously or being given special treatment by election officials. The level of voter fraud this election is expected to be especially high.. Many states make no real effort to verify the legitimacy of voters and tens of thousands of cases of duplicate registrations and fraudulent registrations have already been identified. We don't want dead people voting in 2004 the way they did in Illinois and Missouri last time.
Dave
www.torchofliberty.com
Also keep an eye out for people behaving suspiciously or being given special treatment by election officials. The level of voter fraud this election is expected to be especially high.. Many states make no real effort to verify the legitimacy of voters and tens of thousands of cases of duplicate registrations and fraudulent registrations have already been identified. We don't want dead people voting in 2004 the way they did in Illinois and Missouri last time.
Dave
www.torchofliberty.com
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