Quote:It's a tough message but one people need to understand. I know the whole MTV get out the vote campaigns has them all convinced voting is a constitutional right but it's simply never qualified as a right in the constitution. There's plenty of stipulations placed to prevent discrimination or restricting access based upon specific qualifiers but that's different from a constitutional right.

On the other hand though, the lack of full voter participation can lead to corruption in the sense that a vote of the minority, doesn't necessarily represent the interests of everyone else in the community. In my town alone, only 2,000 people voted out of a total population of roughly 63,000 people. Of whom only about less than 20,000 were registered voters in the last Mayoral/Council election. And there's an equally insignificant voter turnout for the County Elections.

 

Now I know that most people don't really care so much about Town/City/County elections as much as Gubernatorial, Senatorial, and Presidential elections, but you've got to admit that, that is just sad and disappointing man. Especially since these elections affect you much more directly than the other ones.

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