Comments on Advance Indiana™: Voter Turnout In Marion County Was Abysmal

Yes, Haskett, not participating is the best soluti...

2014-11-05T16:50:42.144-05:00

Yes, Haskett, not participating is the best solution. If nobody voted, it would be hard for the government to claim any legitimacy. Voting is giving assent. Not voting is withdrawing assent.

If people continue to vote, the system can make some claim to being "the will of the people."

Gary said only 25% of registered voters turned out. What percentage of Marion County is registered to vote? Just how few people care to be part of this government?

This government is well on its way to being an irrelevant occupying government.

Not participating is not a solution.

2014-11-05T16:34:01.991-05:00

Not participating is not a solution.

Less than 25% of registered voters turn out in Mar...

2014-11-05T15:14:51.006-05:00

Less than 25% of registered voters turn out in Marion County to Vote. Look at it this way if you had an Army in the field and 75% of your soldiers refused to fight, you could conclude your soldiers did not think the cause was fighting for.

75% of the Registered Voters did not think casting a vote was worth the minimal effort needed. I cannot blame anyone for not voting here in Marion County or in this state. Both Political Parties are totally united behind Crony-Capitalism.

The who cares attitude prevails.

"If voters were upset at how they're bein...

2014-11-05T14:44:12.900-05:00

"If voters were upset at how they're being governed, they didn't express it by casting votes in yesterday's election"

WHAT!

I hate how I'm being governed, but you expect me to show up and vote in the same failed system that gives me the same failed two parties, year in and year out?

Read the Indiana Election Code. It's rigged in favor of the Democrats and Republicans. It's horribly biased against anyone not from those two parties.

Neither of those two horrible parties has the right ideas, so what's the point of voting for either of them? A dog turd sandwich and a cat turd sandwich both taste pretty awful (or so I've been told).

Open the ballots to more candidates, and get party names off the ballot.

Give me some real parties and some real choices, and let me vote for who I want, rather than against who I want least.

Let me be able to transfer my vote to the next guy if my gal doesn't win.

If you vote, this is your government. I don't vote. I'm not a part of this government, and I won't legitimize it by voting for it.

Bad election upon bad election causes one to wonder whether humans are easily manipulated simians and whether letting them vote might not be the best idea, after all.