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I didn't vote this election. I'm sure most people who have read my posts on the subject know why by now. If you don't :shrug: maybe this post will give you an understanding as to why.
Before the election day came around I had already determined that I would vote for Romney if I was going to vote at all. For the simple fact that he isn't Obama. Not that he was better than Obama or worse than Obama. Indeed I put him in the same exact catagory as Obama. Power Hungry asshole that doesn't actually care about this country.
But in the end I didn't vote. Was a waste of my time. And this election just proved it to me. I live in Idaho. A state that has pretty much always voted Republican. And this election was no different. Idaho's electoral votes went to Romney just as I predicted it would. Romney got 54.04% of the votes, Obama got 42.72%. So the margin was relatively quite wide...and normal.
So in the end my vote was worthless. The electoral votes still went to Republicans and even if I was inclined to vote for Obama my vote still wouldn't have meant a thing as there was too wide a gap for my one measley little vote would not have made up the roughly 12% difference.
So my question to those that didn't vote...did you find a similar experiance with your non-vote?
This is also why I don't like the electoral voting system we have. People keep talking about other peoples votes being disenfranchised when talking about voter ID laws yet what they don't see is that there is disenfranchisement going on right now with the system we have in place. Where peoples votes literally mean nothing and have no value.
To those that did vote, knowing what I have told you here...do you think that more people would vote in the elections if our system of voting was based on the popular vote instead of the current system?
To answer that question on a personal note...yes I would vote if I thought that my vote actually meant something. And in a popular voting system my vote WOULD mean something...even if my side lost.
Before the election day came around I had already determined that I would vote for Romney if I was going to vote at all. For the simple fact that he isn't Obama. Not that he was better than Obama or worse than Obama. Indeed I put him in the same exact catagory as Obama. Power Hungry asshole that doesn't actually care about this country.
But in the end I didn't vote. Was a waste of my time. And this election just proved it to me. I live in Idaho. A state that has pretty much always voted Republican. And this election was no different. Idaho's electoral votes went to Romney just as I predicted it would. Romney got 54.04% of the votes, Obama got 42.72%. So the margin was relatively quite wide...and normal.
So in the end my vote was worthless. The electoral votes still went to Republicans and even if I was inclined to vote for Obama my vote still wouldn't have meant a thing as there was too wide a gap for my one measley little vote would not have made up the roughly 12% difference.
So my question to those that didn't vote...did you find a similar experiance with your non-vote?
This is also why I don't like the electoral voting system we have. People keep talking about other peoples votes being disenfranchised when talking about voter ID laws yet what they don't see is that there is disenfranchisement going on right now with the system we have in place. Where peoples votes literally mean nothing and have no value.
To those that did vote, knowing what I have told you here...do you think that more people would vote in the elections if our system of voting was based on the popular vote instead of the current system?
To answer that question on a personal note...yes I would vote if I thought that my vote actually meant something. And in a popular voting system my vote WOULD mean something...even if my side lost.