After all that has transpired in Ferguson, will residents vote?

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. Yes, but it is the enforcement that is lacking

I can have pink unicorns written in the laws and not get them becuase of lack of enforcement. Or as detailed in the DOJ report for Ferguson on the PD, hyper enforcement of some issues for people in the underclass.

I know that a lot of people still want to believe all is fine and good in this country. But once you start talking turkey you realize quickly, how all that is an illusion.

By the way, we also have mail in ballots in California. We expect California to default to mail in within a generation at most... by default, not law. But until you have far more mail in ballots than actual ballots cast at the polls the day of the election, ensuring they are counted, that is one of the systemic issues we have.

Oregon did it the right way. They just went automatic mail in ballots, and now with their new motor voter bill, signed into law, which California is looking to follow, people will have to opt out, not in, from voting rolls. We need to expand that practice and modernize elections... instead we are getting poll taxes (ID laws) put in place. That is not a coincidence.

I am going to make a huge assumption, so if I made a mistake, my apologies, but you are middle class. I will advise you to do the same thing I told the OP to do, Go talk to people in the poor side of town. Really. You will get an education, not necessarily what you want to hear, but one nonetheless. Barber shops are an extremely good place to do that. Trust me on this, we have been covering race issues in detail, and we have gotten an education ourselves. (It also has increased our level of cynicism from a pretty high level to well beyond the solar system).

We will vote, but not because either my husband or I believe it makes a tinker's damn of difference.