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Posted on Oct 31, 2010
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Whether you drink tea, coffee or Kool-Aid, it’s your civic duty to vote. It’s also surprisingly easy to end up in the wrong rec center casting a provisional ballot. Make sure you’re registered and know where to vote by searching with the election gadget below. You’ll find the latest poll info there as well.

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By rico, suave, November 2, 2010 at 10:06 pm Link to this comment

mdgr:

“We need to stop voting for the lesser of two evils”

Since there are rarely more than two choices on any ballot, I don’t need to put words in your mouth.

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By mdgr, November 2, 2010 at 9:04 pm Link to this comment

Actually Rico, I wish you not put words in my mouth. You may or may not be an NSA troll who lurks on TD, but I have no more respect for blathering than you do.

The fact is you do not agree with me, and that’s perfectly OK. I rather prefer it that way, as a matter of fact.

Just try not to mischaracterize what I’ve said. Nor may you use me as a hapless lever to advertise your own perverse biases which happen to arise, unlike my biases, from the dark side of the force.

Cheers.

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By TAO Walker, November 1, 2010 at 2:17 pm Link to this comment

It’s ALL “Kool-Aid.” So pick your poison.  It’s your “civic duty.”

HokaHey!

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By ardee, November 1, 2010 at 4:57 am Link to this comment

I have voted an absentee ballot for years. It is the simplest way to do ones civic duty. Those who advocate not voting are also advocating for the continued slide into corporate control of our government, whether they do so consciously or not.

Vote third party, vote write in, but vote. Let your voice be heard. Of course, if one votes every two years and does nothing else, then that duty is left unfulfilled.

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By rico, suave, October 31, 2010 at 11:03 pm Link to this comment

That’s right. I agree with mdgr-

Please, all you progs- DO NOT VOTE! It’s a rigged system and your computerized vote will be thrown out by neocon Zionist capitalist cryto-Nazi poll-workers in any case. The system is corrupt, all the candidates are already bought and paid for by the banks and big oil. All you can do is wait til Wednesday’s new truthdig front page comes out so you can resume bitching about how bad things are going to be from now on.

But above all- DO NOT VOTE on Tuesday!!!

Capitalists. Working hard so you don’t have to.

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By mdgr, October 31, 2010 at 10:28 pm Link to this comment

The civic duty of any aware voter, as I see it, is to facilitate as rapid disintegration of the liberal class as possible, defining that term pretty much as Chris Hedges has (“The real enemy of the liberal class is not Glenn Beck but Noam Chomsky). We need to stop voting for the lesser of two evils too, for Vichy over Berlin, for the moronic platitudes that declare that it is our civic duty to be part of a sham-election.

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By rico, suave, October 31, 2010 at 9:00 pm Link to this comment

pat10101:

What the HELL are you talking about?

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By Kath Cantarella, October 31, 2010 at 8:41 pm Link to this comment
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If you vote Democrat please vote on paper.

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By Miko, October 31, 2010 at 5:57 pm Link to this comment
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Voting is NOT a civic duty.  Voting is usually all
but completely irrelevant.  What’s really important
is what you’re doing when you’re not voting, not
convincing others to vote, not convincing others to
donate time or money to a political party or
candidate, etc.  As Howard Zinn put it,

“When some people ask me about voting, they would say
will you support this candidate or that candidate? I
say: “I will support this candidate for one minute
that I am in the voting booth. At that moment I will
support A versus B, but before I am going to the
voting booth, and after I leave the voting booth, I
am going to concentrate on organizing people and not
organizing electoral campaign.”

(source: http://www.alternet.org/news/85427/?
page=entire )

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By Bill, October 31, 2010 at 5:18 pm Link to this comment
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So if Hitler was running against Stalin, it is a civic duty to vote for one of them?

Choices are lame and a fraud and lame to the dangerous level.  It’s pick your poison, your civic duty to drink it?

I think not.  You get corporate control fake shiny, or corporate control straight ugly.  Same thing, different wrapping.

I see no civic duty that can be found in those choices.

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By rico, suave, October 31, 2010 at 4:40 pm Link to this comment

Pat:

Amen brother

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By PatrickHenry, October 31, 2010 at 3:50 pm Link to this comment

I need a sticker which says,

“I VOTED THEM OUT”

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