How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their
candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library?
Grocery store posters?
Well, imagine if we could buy votes...I'd bet we could scrounge up a few hundred thousand votes for the price of a few vials of crack. Then imagine we 'elect' bin Laden as a Senator or something with these votes.
I bet people would start voting after that.
-TD
From: Harmon Seaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fact checking Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:15:04 -0500
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:20:06PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
>
> Thus spake Harmon Seaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26/04/04 19:25]:
> : And the local elections are no prime pickings either, it's crooks to the left
> : of us, crooks to the right of us, ahead and behind, above and below. Extremely
> : few real choices. The real problem is -- most people don't vote. What needs to
> : be done is a real grass roots effort to educate people and get them to vote.
>
> So, how does one start a grass roots effort? I'm Canuck, and I'm not
> exactly impressed with this year's pickings up North. My last vote was a
> vote /against/ the in-office party, not for the party I'd like to see in
> office.
>
> How do you start motivating a lazy and apathetic public to learn about their
> candidates, and vote? Door-to-door campaigns? Talks at the local library?
> Grocery store posters?
All of the above, but mostly door-to-door voter registration. When you consider that both klinton and dubbya were elected with only 13%-14% of the eligible voters, it wouldn't take all that many new voters to really make a difference.
-- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com Hoka hey!
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