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Glassunion

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12. It is just as much a civic duty to vote as it is not to vote.

Reply to jorno67 (Original post)

Sat Aug 24, 2013, 12:18 PM

Aug 2013

That's part of the problem with our current system today.

Gee... With a two party system of special interest funded elections, your only options at times are to vote for one of two assholes. Never confuse voting for the lesser of two evils as being good vote.

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I want to propose that in order to receive any government assistance whatsoever... [View all] jorno67 Aug 2013 OP

Heh. Lex Aug 2013 #1

No tkmorris Aug 2013 #2

Double No mimi85 Aug 2013 #14

And how many living on government assistance don't have the proper ID? winter is coming Aug 2013 #3

they didnt need to identify themselves to receive gov benefits? Demonaut Aug 2013 #4

The new voter ID laws tend to be more stringent. winter is coming Aug 2013 #10

+1000 Downwinder Aug 2013 #16

No n/t leftstreet Aug 2013 #5

Sorry, but no. NuclearDem Aug 2013 #6

Exactly! Glassunion Aug 2013 #7

No. Not voting can be, and sometimes is, an act of protest against the system. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2013 #8

Good idea. K&R gulliver Aug 2013 #9

no for reasons listed above dembotoz Aug 2013 #11

It is just as much a civic duty to vote as it is not to vote. Glassunion Aug 2013 #12

I don't like when Repugs put conditions on receiving public assistance and I don't like when Dems do MotherPetrie Aug 2013 #13

Voting is a good thing but ignorant voting is not steve2470 Aug 2013 #15

absolutely NOT, for all the reasons listed in various posts above. niyad Aug 2013 #17

I have a counter proposal. noamnety Aug 2013 #18

There's a minor matter of the Constitution. Yo_Mama Aug 2013 #19