I have just read up on the candidates and the issues and am soon heading to the polls. I encourage everyone who has an election in your area to vote today. It's important.
They're saying maybe as high as 35% here today. That may be optimistic. Seems kind of sad. Then again, considering how much time *I* spent figuring out how to vote, I'm not sure what throwing more people in the pot would actually accomplish (maybe they'd all spend more time than I did?).
I at least got to vote quite confidently against a ballot question.
I'll be surprised if we get more than 20% turnout locally.
I decided which candidates to vote for by reading the questionnaire answers in the local paper and eliminating the candidates who used rightwing buzzwords (e.g. "fiscal responsibility" = screw the schools and municipal employees).
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I at least got to vote quite confidently against a ballot question.
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I decided which candidates to vote for by reading the questionnaire answers in the local paper and eliminating the candidates who used rightwing buzzwords (e.g. "fiscal responsibility" = screw the schools and municipal employees).