09-24-2006, 04:20 AM
i voted in kea'au, my landlady was there running the precinct. I voted at 2pm, she said that by then less than 200 of 1200 registered voters had actually shown up, and that's only the registered voters! Guess all those signs, don't mean much when it actually comes to affecting meaningfull change. With turnouts like this one could easily throw elections just by busing selected voters! So anyone who feels like complaining about ANYTHING in Puna, unless you voted; keep it to yourself. I blame my peers more than anyone. We've allowed ourselves to fall for the BS idea that our votes are pointless, geez! Talk about self-defeatism! Nothing is quite as sad as "activists" dis-enfranchising themselves.
Maybe one day we can get intellingent voting policies in place that offer incentives or even cash to voters to vote. Maybe we can get instant run-off elections, so that you can vote a list of canidates, not just one republican or one democrat. Sigh, thanks to all of you who voted. You are true partiots.
Maybe one day we can get intellingent voting policies in place that offer incentives or even cash to voters to vote. Maybe we can get instant run-off elections, so that you can vote a list of canidates, not just one republican or one democrat. Sigh, thanks to all of you who voted. You are true partiots.