Voting Grumpy
In a week, our city will have held their triennial elections. In preparation, the city has mailed out pamphlets saying that "YOUR VOTE COUNTS". Unfortunately, I don't see any way to make my vote count the way I want it to.
I don't trust any of the candidates, either for my region or for mayor, to make even a majority of decisions that I agree with. The incumbents have proven otherwise, and the platforms of the challengers are worse. So what's a voter to do?
If there ever was, there no longer appears to be any way of indicating a vote of "no confidence" in the candidates. If there was, I would use this without question.
I can boycott the election, stay home, and have my vote is counted with the apathetic.
I can vote for nobody, spoil my ballot, and have my vote is counted with the incompetent.
Or, I can hold my nose, and tick the box next to the candidate that I think is going to make things worse the slowest. That's hardly the most appealing choice.
There really seems to be no wholly positive answer to what to do with elections.
Bruce on 10.22.09 @ 06:14 PM CST [link] [No Comments]