On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 17:32 -0800, Travis Pahl wrote: > providing slightly less legitamacy to the candidate that wins.
Nope. A choice to not vote is still a choice; you can not get out of it. That's the nature of an electoral system. Choosing to not vote detracts no legitimacy for several reasons. Among them that you still made a choice to not vote for the opponents. Ultimately it allows the elected one to say that "of those who actually cared enough to vote" s/he got the most votes. And when it comes to government politics, that is all who really matter. > Granted it is small, but so is the effect of voting for the candidate. > At least by not voting, I am proud of my decision. I voted for someone other than the "big two", and I am proud of my decision. Yet we had practically the same effect. _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
