Have you voted yet?
What are you waiting for?
What else have you got to do that is more important?
No matter what it is, this is more important. We have the worst voting participation in the world, it seems. I don't know how true that really is but it amazes me that some people in other countries will travel on foot, sometimes for days, to exercise their right to vote but our citizens seem to think it is too much trouble to stand in line for an hour to do the same thing.
Disgusting.
A Night Unremembered
13 years ago
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=db7a6bcc-3e7d-4965-8621-6a8fc796869b
printed in a canadian newspaper, written by a guy at the Cato Institute...I couldn't find the exact article I was looking for, but this presents a lot of the arguments I wanted to convey
His best argument is:
"Moreover, if you want to be civic-minded, your duty isn't to fill in ballots just to fill in ballots. You shouldn't do it in ignorance, out of emotion, or to win approval from your political friends. Your duty is to vote well -- to participate in a way that, at the very least, makes the outcome no worse."
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