There are probably several reasons that cause people to fail to vote. Avoiding jury duty comes to mind, but mostly it is because it looks like a waste of time.
People who have decided that their vote doesn't matter because the two parties are both horrible are acting rationally as far as they know. The two party paradigm has been so thoroughly banged into everyone's head that the thought of a third party is not realistic to most. The main stream media openly suppress knowledge of third parties.
Think back to the 2004 election. You heard about every word and throat clearing of Bush and Kerry. Obviously Bush was pro-war and Kerry tried to be both pro and anti-war. The ONLY unequivically anti-war candidate was Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party. Did you even know he was a choice? His candidacy was one of the best kept secrets of the whole campaign. I bet that a whole lot of anti-war people did not vote because they thought that they had no viable alternative, when, in fact they did.
Electronic, unauditable voting is another reason that people might choose not to vote. Why vote when the powers that be will do what they want with the vote totals no matter what you do?
I simply don't know how we got into such an idiotic position. People, a computer that you may not examine is not an adequate voting system. Cheating the system is trivially easy. Now, you can use computers to print out paper ballots that are then inspected by the voter and voila!, we have an audit trail. Anything else is laughable.
The only solution to the unauditable voting issue must come from the courts. They must start to overturn any election that is not subject to a full, audited recount.
To overcome the deadly two party paradigm, we have a small window of opportunity now to learn about third parties on our own. The media will not help us. This must happen soon. The police state trap is about to slam shut on us.
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We are in a police state; it's just a matter of degree. Right now we still have the illusion of a little freedom, only because all of the things that CAN be done to us are not YET being done.
Consider just one example: there are no private property rights any longer. We rent property from the state (by paying property tax), and if the state decides it can sell us down the river, it does so via eminent domain. Furthermore, as we found out at Lake Edun firsthand, if the government doesn't like what you're doing with your land, they just shut you down by force, even if it is peaceable and not hurting anyone.
Unfortunately I think many people won't be bothered with any of this until it happens to them, and of course, most don't believe it ever will.
All,
This is great hype. They say that to get change you have to create a crisis.
At the same time, if you cry wolf to many times you have a problem too.
It may be true that people won't be bothered by this until it happens....but for now that is just an opinion (unless there is some data that supports it, something I always want to see).
So, let's focus on getting people started in the right direction. I meet many people who just don't know how to think about things.
Scott
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