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Originally Posted by elphenor
voting should be just one course of political action ideally but don't doubt its importance
I participate in the civic engagement club at my college, I register students to vote, and I think it's actually the most tangible thing I do for progressives
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I've been slacking on that last week but I help register voters as well. Voter turnouts are so low on off years.
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
This is how it looks to me, in the USA or anywhere else:-
After centuries of nonrepresentation, people died for the right to vote so that they could have some say in their governance. However ineffective that say may be, it's surely better than nothing?
voting = a gesture towards democracy
not voting = go ahead, take it away. I don't need democracy
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This is the reason that I can't be bothered to hear out people's opinions/complaints if they can't even be bothered to vote in the first place. Even more so when it comes to local races that have such close margins. A friend of mines won his primary race by four votes and it was after they counted absentee ballots before those ballots he lost by 6 votes.