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In the U.S. where I am anyway in Texas, you can bubble in straight ticket Republican or Democrat.
I....don't feel that this is necessarily a good thing.
I know there are people who WILL do this anyway i.e. bubble all the R's or D's down the line, but I wonder if it influences lazy people to be lazy?....
Is this a good thing?
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I don't think it makes a difference. Most of the partyline voters are pretty good at figuring out the ballot and doing it anyhow. As long as the ballot isn't confusing or misleading the independents are going to pay more attention.
And it gets the idiots out of the way so people who think about voting don't have to wait in line.
Lazy people won't be out voting in the first place.
Voting for the person is short sighted. Most people in office are told to vote along party lines, or they don't get the funding from the party. Plus I suggest not trusting someone that sounds good in a speech. Goodness and ability to run something is not a prerequisite for speechifying.
In the U.S. where I am anyway in Texas, you can bubble in straight ticket Republican or Democrat.
I....don't feel that this is necessarily a good thing.
I know there are people who WILL do this anyway i.e. bubble all the R's or D's down the line, but I wonder if it influences lazy people to be lazy?....
Is this a good thing?
It's simply another choice. I tend to like choice.
You know what would really stick it to lazy voters? One polling place in the country, and it's fifty miles from the nearest road. You have to hike in cross-country, on foot. Plus we'll only have elections during blizzards. Then you have to manually write a ballot, in Gothic script, from memory with all the candidates' full names, their birthdays, street addresses, and blood types. Then you can't just cast your ballot. You have to stand naked in the snowstorm with it held between your buttocks for fifteen hours while dwarves spray you with firehoses. If your ballot gets wet, or you shiver, or you drop it, or you forget any of those details, or get them wrong, your ballot is invalid.
Also one ballot, randomly chosen, of every twenty triggers a trap door that dumps you into a pit full of flesh-eating beetles and dumps a big pile of sugar and hot sauce on you. Also the beetles are high on crystal meth. That one ballot in twenty only counts as half a vote too.
That would show those lazy voters.
It feels like the choices are all the same and never amount to much.
Ross Perot ran on that idea in 1992 and 1996. In those elections, it may have been more true than not. But if the years immediately after 2000 didn't disabuse you of this notion, I'm not sure you're paying attention.
It may be that individuals in the Democratic or Republican parties may not vary much because individuals may be more or less liberal/conservative than the party in general, but there is substantial difference in collective policy.
It feels like the choices are all the same and never amount to much.
Because anyone trying to implement real change will be immediately thrown under the bus by a fickle electorate, to say nothing of his own party. Most people only want "real change" as long as it really changes things in their favor. Sacrifice is defined as what the other guy should be doing.
Can you tell we just had an election? :P
You know what would really stick it to lazy voters? One polling place in the country, and it's fifty miles from the nearest road. You have to hike in cross-country, on foot. Plus we'll only have elections during blizzards. Then you have to manually write a ballot, in Gothic script, from memory with all the candidates' full names, their birthdays, street addresses, and blood types. Then you can't just cast your ballot. You have to stand naked in the snowstorm with it held between your buttocks for fifteen hours while dwarves spray you with firehoses. If your ballot gets wet, or you shiver, or you drop it, or you forget any of those details, or get them wrong, your ballot is invalid.
Also one ballot, randomly chosen, of every twenty triggers a trap door that dumps you into a pit full of flesh-eating beetles and dumps a big pile of sugar and hot sauce on you. Also the beetles are high on crystal meth. That one ballot in twenty only counts as half a vote too.
That would show those lazy voters.
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You know what I think?
I think the rent is too damn high.
That's what I think.