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How Are You "Don't Vote" Tards Feeling tonight?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 725839:MV8xMjQxNjkwXzIwMjM0MjQwXzRDM0I4QkZD] [quote:Evil Twin] There is only one way to fix this and it aint by voting. Jump, frog. I jumped 6 years ago now. The view from here is quite entertaining. True liberty, once lost, is never recovered from the ballot box. There are many ways to skin a cat....some much less "ugly" than others... Yet, you're paying taxes on a US internet provider. V-O-L-U-N-T-A-R-I-L-Y by thoughtful choice....IE NOT at gunpoint. Get it? Nevertheless, please point out anywhere in history or otherwise where liberty, once lost, was regained at the ballot box? LMAO...like they won't collecta t gunpoint if you choose to not volunteer. As for liberty being regained at the ballot box, it might actually happen if the other 80% of you got off your asses. I reckon you'll keep doing exactly nothing though. [/quote] Yes, "they" won't collect anything from me at gunpoint, because I don't volunteer. You might should look into that little gem of truth. I'm doing quite the opposite of nothing, just not perpetuating the myth that we are involved in a representative republic by casting a vote between criminals. [/quote]
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How's that Not Voting workin for ya?!
— the number of nonvoters continues to outpace voters. In a primary season where the narrative tends to be about partisanship and anger, the statistics through the end of the summer suggest that voter participation remained relatively consistent with the last couple off-year election cycles.
According to the study, voter turnout rebounded slightly from the 2006 primary season (which, with slightly less than 17 percent of the voting age population voting, holds the record for the lowest turnout for a midterm election on record). It is consistent with turnout from the 1998 and 2002 primaries, in which
slightly less than 19 percent of the population voted.
Compared to 1994, participation in the 2010 primary runs about two percentage points lower.
Look at the graphs.
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link to fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com
]
Less than 20% are voting when it counts during the primaries.
Not voting lead us to this very spot.
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