IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE.......Why dont you use it.?

Question

It always anoys me when people do not bother to vote in elections .I know you might not like the candidates ,but you can purposely ''spoil it'' in protest .I think its wrong not to bother to vote when you look arround the world today and see so many people puting their lives in peril just to achieve this right.....what say you

Answer 1

You have it perfect. My husband didn't used to vote but I nagged and told him if he did vote than he cannot complain about the people in office. If you don't understand what is going on begin to read the papers. Read what the candidates are saying. You will begin to pick up on differences in what each stands for. In all elections individuals can make a difference. Sometimes in a local election someone will win on a 1 or 2 vote difference. In Florida in 2000 a few people made a huge difference in the outcome of the election. Those ballots were tallied just about every way imaginable and Bush won With only a few thousand vote difference. This gave him Florida's Electoral College votes and the election. Too many brave people have died so we can have the freedoms we enjoy by voting you honor these people.

Answer 2

I vote, but I don't think everyone should. I study world events, I read the news and always know whats going on. But too many people do not know anything about what is happening in the world. Their vote is dangerous. If someone has not been paying attention, I think we are all better off if they stay out of the voting booths as well.

Answer 3

Oh, I've voted, don't get me wrong, but it makes no difference. Especially now with the new electonic voting machines, where there is absolutely no paper trail. Diebold owns these machines which work almost as a Window's spreadsheet, and can just as easily be altered from the outside by political sources. BTW, the CEO of Diebold is a known, and staunch supporter of the Republican party. Also, the machines were used mainly in Ohio, THE swing state.

So, in conclusion:

I have voted and will vote again. But my above answer should answer your question as to why many disenfranchised people don't even bother.

Answer 4

I just had this discussion in my S.S. class with some students who are deemed at-risk. The one they agreed on was they have yet to see a candidate that represents them or the things they care about. That is on the local and national level.

Also they stated that they feel that is studpid to vote for people who are thought to be untrustworthy in general. To them politicians promise better, but never deliver.

I tend to agree to a certain extent. My quality of life will never be determined by a senator or President. However, my quality of life will be affected by a local politician since they are the ones who dictate what state/income/property taxes I pay. They are also the ones that control zoning, police, fire, and all the different things dictate the quality of my life.

So I don't vote for the president or congressmen. I do vote on city council and local statutes.

Answer 5

Do you honestly think our votes really mean anything? I think its planned by the big wigs who will be president or governer I honestly dont think the peoples votes mean squat but they want " the people" to think it does.
I personaly never vote cause i dont like the candidates they say they will do something until they get into office and then what they say they will do they do the opposite..Bush monkey is a perfect example he is sappose to be "for the people" the only thing he has done is got into a war his daddy didnt get a chance to finish and killed off numerous amounts of our people while he sits on his A double S and demands more troups out to get themselves killed. And the jack A double S wont stop until another attack happens in our country he should be assasinated himself and the USA would be better off! and thats what i have to say about that!

Answer 6

Hear hear. I didn't vote for a long time because I thought "I don't even want to participate in a system that doesn't work and I disagree wholeheartedly with." But, after some logical thinking and a little kick in the pants from someone who knew more than me about politics, I realized that voting is even MORE important for those of us who think the system is broken.

Answer 7

I voted for Gore. He won, but he lost. The real question is "how can our flawed voting system be improved?" Punching holes in cards is old, and as the whole world saw, not very reliable at all. With the technology that we have in place now, why isn't there a foolproof way to vote? I refuse to go out of my way and use the gas in my car that I paid way too much for, and stand in a ridiculously long line, only to have a repeat of 2004. I have lost faith in our country's voting system.

Answer 8

I always remind myself that people once thought it was worth dying to win the right to vote. Not voting is just selfish complacency.
If you don't vote then don't whine if you don't like the world you live in .

Answer 9

I've only missed one election since I turned 18, and thats because the county screwed up and sent my absentee ballot to the wrong place - fortunately it was an off year election, so it was just water district and community college board type stuff.

Answer 10

Because my vote is literally never counted.

I haven't ever voted for either of the two majority party candidates. So, given the current Congressional districting system and given the current electoral college system, my vote has literally never been counted, and is unlikely to ever be counted until the system changes.

Why should I waste several hours of my time, when it will make no difference whatsoever, because the vote will never be counted?