[24502] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Election Protection in Tucson
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Dean)
Fri Oct 22 18:40:52 2004
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:25:04 -0400
Reply-To: Robert Dean <rdean71@comcast.net>
From: Robert Dean <rdean71@comcast.net>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9d47536c04102122194d6b19dc@mail.gmail.com>
The disheartening thing about "get out the vote" and voter registration
drives is that they focus on getting people to vote without making sure
they know what they're voting for. One of the polling companies
recently reported that 25% of likely voters they surveyed picked the
wrong candidate when asked where candidates stand on issues like taxes
and the environment.
Democracy doesn't work with an uninformed electorate. If it's possible,
I know I'd like to see such registration drives include unbiased
information (which, admittedly, is fairly tricky...a lot of sites claim
to be nonpartisan but spend nearly all of their space attacking a
certain candidate) on where the voters can go to find out where the
candidates stand, so they can go to the booth knowing which candidate
fits their values and philosophies better.
Think of it this way...the Republicans and Democrats both would have
been forced to field better candidates, and 3rd party alternatives would
be more viable, if the electorate were more informed.
Zonuts wrote:
>Are there any Brothers in Tucson? I'm volunteering for Election
>Protection (http://www.electionprotection.org) in Tucson. I arrive
>late on October 28th, and leave in the early afternoon on November
>3rd. I will definitely be volunteering all day Election Day in the
>office, and I will be receiving last-minute training on the evening of
>the 1st. I will also be volunteering on other days, but nothing has
>been firmed up yet.
>
>It would be great to meet area Brothers, whether or not anyone is
>volunteering for Election Protection.
>
>Sharon Zohar
>Semi-retired Sectional Staff
>Alum of EZ (RPI) 1987
>--
>"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to
>be normal." -- Albert Camus
>
>
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