Come on, vote, dammitThe Chronicle reports that turnout so far is really slow. That's bad for saving rent control (No on 98), stopping Lennar Corp. (no on G), electing a progresive judge (Sandoval) and stopping Joe Nation from becoming the next state Senator.
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Comments (6)
I've happily cast my vote yes on 98, and no on 99. My fingers are crossed, hoping for the elimination of rent control state-wide.
Posted by Miguel | June 3, 2008 03:09 PM
Well get this....I went to vote this morning and someone had already voted for me! Yup, another woman came in and gave my name and address, signed my name on the sheet and voted!
I had to vote provisionally, I hope this is not something going on around the city, with the low turnout if there is fraud, they have a good shot that the people they vote for won't show up and find out.
(They could have gotten my name and address off the sheets hanging outside the polling place, as I cannot imagine why anyone would want to impersonate me specifically.)
Posted by Kim OConnor | June 3, 2008 04:30 PM
Low turn out, a poorly-informed citizenry, and ballot measures created by rich interests to exploit these factors -- do we need a better reason to get rid of California's ridiculous initiative process? The only initiative I feel like voting for is one that would ban all future initiatives.
Posted by Michael S. | June 3, 2008 06:17 PM
@Michael
Of course it is immoral to let citizens actually choose their destiny. Maybe we should scrap this whole democracy thing in favor of a dictatorship? The elite class should be the deciders, not the lowly citizenry.
Posted by Miguel | June 3, 2008 07:29 PM
Oh Miguel, we don't have a democracy...we have a representative government. We elect people to represent us. People for whom their job is to be informed...and use their best judgment do the best for the society. It works if we let it. We can always vote out those who disappoint us.
Posted by KK | June 3, 2008 07:48 PM
Yeah, but how are we supposed to be able to vote for candidates if we're too stupid to vote for actual laws? Ill-informed voters are going to be a problem in either situation - either you get poor choices for representative or poor choices for actual laws.
By taking out the middleman (poorly chosen corruptible political hacks), you're just allowing people to more accurately determine the actions of their own government. And that's bad because...?
Posted by Miguel | June 3, 2008 08:21 PM