Should we refrain from voting and let our Congress and Diebold do it for us?
926567
Democracy is dead my friends until we return to paper ballots and support a third party that will hold these hopeless bozos Dems and Republicans' feet to the fire.  The whole thing makes me sick to my stomach.
378922
No.  Us lawabiding citizens vote
970307
At last a voice of reason!  Voting only enslaves you to this bastardized political system we have today.  If you feel you must vote, do as I did and vote for Popeye or NOTA.  You must be blind not to see how both sides are playing you against each other.  No substance at all, only emotional knee jerk reactions.  Wake up people.  We are not free and the illusion of freedom is dwindling.  Most sit back and allow more and more rights/freedoms to be removed every day.  To those  of you who are saying "you can't complain if you don't vote" I say this - don't cry to me when the fascist state removes the veil it's been hiding behind.\n\n\nPay no attention to the man behind the curtain.\n\nLong live economic anarchism
695067
Well, let's use the fear of vote fraud to end machine politics.  When they have better voting systems, tie it to better registration procedures.  Eliminate the dead, the felons and the aliens.
574128
I think it's stupid and it amounts to bribery. Let's take a Wednesday off, mid-week and go vote. Every absolutely non-essential business just shut down and go vote. If the mexicans can march in our streets chanting for their rights then we need a work-day, a prominent work-day, to get out and vote. People celebrate the 4th of july, people will get out and vote on Voting Day. If we have one. Business has to make some room for civics. If they'll let foreigners skip work to go protest then by golly they can bite their lip and let actual citizens go VOTE.
772622
would Americans make a mistake and put a coward in office, a vote for a Democrat is a vote for our destruction
1132493
Do your civic duty, it's the price of being able to vote.  You might not be chosen anyway.
776202
I don't think so.  If people don't want to vote, why make them?  Will it mean anything if they just pick random people because they don't want to be there?
968454
Yes, I will. I am 58 and have voted in every election since I came of age, except for two times, , both mid-term elections like this coming Tuesday, which I missed because I was in a fast attack submarine on deployment in the Western Pacific.The way I see it, if you don't vote, you don't have the right to complain about the results.
1007305
We have as much power in those decisions as we did when we did our research before we pulled the voting lever.  I don't think "none" is the right answer.  It is the right answer if you just slop to the poles and choose whichever name you've heard and/or seen most on the TV or radio.  In that case, you deserve what we get (not the author of the question [I hope] but anyone who does so).  Please, if you are going to vote, don't just vote what your parents have voted for the last 40 yrs, look up voting records on key issues to you (ie, the war in Iraq, Marriage amendment, Immigration, legalization of marijuana) or whatever, just make an informed decision instead of just hoping for the best.
980995
It's 5PM on election day and already the claims of "abuse" are flying (from BOTH sides).  It's getting ridiculous.\n\nI'd support a national "Citizen I.D." but not because I believe that Dems are bussing illegals to the polls.  I just think it'd be helpful, not only to precinct workers, but also to employers, banks, businesses, airlines, etc.... anyplace that would appreciate a more foolproof way to be assured of whom they are dealing with. \n\nBut as for our American system of voting, I think we do a pretty good job with the volunteers who work long hours to make our elections the most honest on planet earth.  \n\nIf you don't agree with that, you've been drinking too much partisan KoolAid.  Now take a deep breath and repeat after me: "America is a wonderful country!"
972920
No! I don't want my future decided by a bunch of uninformed people who run in and punch Box A on every issue to get entered in the lottery. If you change the proposition so that you get entered only after sitting down and completing a form that requires you give a detailed explanation of each item on the ballot and what it means, to prove you know what you are voting for, I would go for it then because then it would give an true incentive for getting out more Informed voters.
236316
It's more. You have a _responsibility_ to vote. Voting is the orgasm of democracy. Unfortunately, most citizens can't get it up.
481593
Yes, but you are wasting your vote
1158872
I think that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.  Many presidents have won due to the electoral college rather than popular vote.\n\nWhat disgusts me is the attempt by my party (Democrats) to try to change the rules AFTER the vote.\n\nThat was about the most UNdemocratic thing I've seen in a long time.  This question points out that the same foolishness still lives, making a mockery of democratic process as people still think you can't "win" that way.\n\nWhat utter nonsense.\n\nMay I suggest you familiarize yourself with the rules of the game before you get involved, or change the rules with all of us in agreement before playing.\n\nPlaying Monopoly, losing, and then saying that everyone should have started with twice as much money and therefore you didn't go bankrupt makes you look stupid.\n\nClaiming Bush didn't win because of the electoral college is a silly idea (which it might be, but it was agreed to by all participants BEFORE the election, no complaints, since it might have benefitted them).\n\nSome of us are sick of it.  Show some political education and patriotic support, change the focus of the party onto the values we have made household words rather than special interests, and we'll take back the White House by 2008.\n\nDon't, and we deserve what we don't get.  GET OVER IT!  We're losing because of junk like this.
758797
I voted on a diebold machine and felt it was safe and accurate.\n\nHowever, if someone really tried and knew what they were doing, fraud could be an issue with those machines. Better safeguards are needed in the future.
1051273
It should not be. Nor do I think voting should be a requirement to voice your opinion.\n\nA vote is saying that you affirmatively approve one candidate over another. If none of the people on the ballot are ones that I actually support, I wouldn't vote for them.\n\nHowever, because I am still stuck with whatever laws the majority-elected government chooses to enact,  I absolutely have the right to voice my opinion about those. Especially since I don't actually have the opportunity to vote for most of those laws directly.