[thechat] US Elections. Today I am pissed.

[Joe Crawford]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, aardvark wrote:
> > From: Joe Crawford <joe at artlung.com>
> [...]
> > I'm not disappointed by the results of the election. I'm disappointed
> > in my fellow "citizens."
>
> here in buffalo we had a remarkable turn-out...
>
> about 60% of the city residents voted...
>
> of course, that's also partly because we had a proposition on the ballot
> that pissed off four politicians (the proposal was to fire them,
> essentially)... as they mobilized their constituency, the rest of the
> residents decided it might be a good idea to weigh in as well...

See, this gives me hope.

What this says is that if people think an election /matters/ they'll pay
attention.

So what it makes me think is we need means to express to people what the
stakes are. Nonpartisan ways to convince people that their vote matters.

This presumes, of course, that their vote does matter. :-(

Joe <http://artlung.com/>