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Showing Original Post only (View all)So it's my imagination that people are PAID to disrupt us and convince us NOT to vote? [View all]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/10/voter-turnout-in-2014-was-the-lowest-since-wwii/General election voter turnout for the 2014 midterms was the lowest it's been in any election cycle since World War II, according to early projections by the United States Election Project.
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So it's my imagination that people are PAID to disrupt us and convince us NOT to vote? [View all]
randys1
Dec 2014
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Here in Oregon turnout was about 70%. Roughly twice the national average....
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2014
#2
Doesn't Oregon have some kind of really practical and elaborate mail in voting system? eom
Blanks
Dec 2014
#15
I think there are people who are paid to disrupt and discourage people from voting
notadmblnd
Dec 2014
#4
No, randys1, it is not in your imagination. There are people who cheat and lie for money to win.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#7
I don't know if they were paid but I had heard Rove had a bunch going and I
Thinkingabout
Dec 2014
#9
One of the reasons politics is so negative is to disgust and turn off voters. It's effective.
Scuba
Dec 2014
#13
Hope you are right and it is all the more reason why you will see an extreme effort
randys1
Dec 2014
#18
Maybe a "None of the Above" option and vote by mail would put them out of business.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#19
Anybody that bases their decisions on anonymous internet postings is a weak-willed dimwit.
Throd
Dec 2014
#22
Nope. It's true. With the money that side has to throw around, I bet there's a paid troll
calimary
Dec 2014
#28
Of course it works, the question is to what extent, otherwise they wouldnt do it
randys1
Dec 2014
#30
Are you saying you might decide not to vote because a troll told you not to?
SomethingFishy
Dec 2014
#32
I get the feeling there are people deliberately trying to convince the public that "the left" is
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2015
#45