I suppose that in this day and age, voting has become merely an exercise in
personal expression. It's a pretty sad state of affairs, but who am I to
criticize? I voted for presidential candidates who have no chance of winning
either. I omitted voting for some judges who were endorsed by every existing
party in Nassau County since it seemed to me that if all the parties
endorsed them, they stood for nothing at all. I voted for a congresswoman I
hate because the Republican candidate would have been even worse.
Actdually, I put a lot of thought into each vote I cast and as I did so, I
felt like the whole thing was an exercise in futility.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Just Voted
I just voted. I was really considering voting for Jeff Mackler for
president, but in the end I stuck with Alyson Kennedy and Osborne Hart.
I really don't like Alyson's party's position on Israel now, but I voted for
her anyway and I will have to admit that it had something to do with the
fact that I could not remember how to spell Jeff Mackler's vice presidential
running mate's name. For those of you who are so enamored by liberals you
may be happy to know that I voted for Charlotte Pritt for governor and went
down the ballot voting for anyone else who was running as a Mountain Party
candidate. The Mountain amounts to being the Green Party in West Virginia. I
would not have voted for them if I had thought they had any chance of being
elected and, in fact, I did vote against Charlotte Pritt back in the 1990's
when she ran for governor as a Democrat. It's just that I wanted to register
a protest against the Republicrats and there was nothing else to do it with
other than the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party. Writing in
candidates is a lot of trouble and a slow process, so I just went with the
Mountain Party. Far down the ballot, though, I did write in another name and
he was actually a democrat. It seems that a Democrat named Eric Wells filed
for the position of county clerk. There was some legal chicanery that kept
him off the ballot that is too complex for me to go into here and the only
candidate on the ballot for that position was a Republican. So I wrote his
name in just to protest his being ruled off the ballot. All in all, I think
I can congratulate myself for having stuck with my lifelong record of having
never voted for a candidate who won.
