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Sep. 12th, 2006
I dropped the ball...
Sep. 12th, 2006 09:45 pmI didn't vote in the state primaries today.
I take voting seriously. Enough so that I even research the candidates instead of automatically assuming that party affiliation is a good indicator of a candidate's stand on the actual issues.
But I totally lost track this time. And I've got no excuse - it's not like school has been eating my time.
Gonna put my head on the chopping block here so y'all can kick it around: should I have gone out and voted anyway, just to do my civic duty, even though I know nothing about the candidates?
Update 10:30 pm: Re:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skill_grl's comment about eligibility of unaffiliated voters to vote in local primaries: here's the scoop, though I'm still fuzzy about this particular election - it wasn't a party primary, it was gubernatorial and various positions had candidates from both of the major parties. Yet, it was still a primary, so I'm still not sure if independents were even eligible to vote.
If someone can answer this for me I'll take my wrist-rapping with grace, either because I coulda voted but didn't, or because I didn't keep up well enough with my civic duty to know whether I even could vote today or not :/
I take voting seriously. Enough so that I even research the candidates instead of automatically assuming that party affiliation is a good indicator of a candidate's stand on the actual issues.
But I totally lost track this time. And I've got no excuse - it's not like school has been eating my time.
Gonna put my head on the chopping block here so y'all can kick it around: should I have gone out and voted anyway, just to do my civic duty, even though I know nothing about the candidates?
Update 10:30 pm: Re:
skill_grl's comment about eligibility of unaffiliated voters to vote in local primaries: here's the scoop, though I'm still fuzzy about this particular election - it wasn't a party primary, it was gubernatorial and various positions had candidates from both of the major parties. Yet, it was still a primary, so I'm still not sure if independents were even eligible to vote.If someone can answer this for me I'll take my wrist-rapping with grace, either because I coulda voted but didn't, or because I didn't keep up well enough with my civic duty to know whether I even could vote today or not :/
