Re: The Tragedy of the Obama Administration

It encourages lazy and ignorant voting...which favors the party in  
power.

regards,
-Lance

On Nov 3, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Karl wrote:

> Ah, ok now I see your point.
>
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>
>> Karl
>> Most people vote that way anyway, they  just made it easier.
>
> No, if election results are to be believed, most people do not vote  
> the
> entire ballot.  A Federal Senate election may get 100k votes while a
> county commissioner position may only get 15k.
>
> Let's us a hypothetical.
>
> Say you are in a primarily democratic precinct, inner city urban area.
> The local democrat running for councilman was involved in a terrible
> criminal scandal while an independent had worked to gain the trust  
> of a
> large portion of the community.  The independent get's 20k votes,  
> which
> would normally win that election, however with the straight party  
> ticket
> option, the democrat gets 90k votes and wins because no one wants to  
> go
> down and vote every election independently with judgement.  Criminal  
> stays
> in office.  Independent and community despairs.
>
> regards,
> -Lance
>
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