Well, yesterday was municipal election day here, and I worked as a Voter Registration Officer.
Interesting with the variety of people that come through.
But, gee whiz, only about a 25% voter turnout. That's terrible. What has happened to civic duty? What has happened to "making a difference"?
Abdication of choice means that others choose for you. Is that really what you want?
OTOH, it is somewhat stressful for me with all those people. But not too bad, since I have done it several times before, and feel pretty much in control all the time. No handflapping.
And I get to tell my bad jokes to the other workers, who of course have never heard them before.
There are no new jokes, just new audiences.
Aah, the virtues of many years in show-biz!
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There, I finally started reading your blog. Hah!
I find voter apathy in the people I tend to associate with is generally generated by disillusionment/disgust with the voting system or available options, which then leads them to question why they should bother voting if they have no faith in the system or don't like any of the choices available to them. I can understand that viewpoint.
Also, my impression more generally is that voter consciousness is much lower for municipal elections than for provincial and federal ones. This applies to me as well, although in my case I'm sure it's partly a product of not staying long enough in any city to really find out what the municipal issues _are_.
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