Voting Confessions

[Biscuitsmom31]

I confess. I am not always 100% informed on every matter on the ballot. Sometimes I read through the state and county questions 2-3 times and still have no clue what it's talking about. I just vote yes on most of the judges unless I've heard something bad about a specific judge.

I always know who I'm voting for for president/senate/representative. Some of the others are uneducted guesses.

Am I alone or will anyone else admit to this?

(Where's my flame suit?)

 

[mickeyfan1]

We got several booklets in the mail from the county explaining all the initiatives and propositions, we got booklets from the school districts explaining their issues, and of course all the junk mail from the candidates. The judges, sometimes we have 40 or 50 to vote on, there is a website that has all the info on them, but really, I have not enough time to go through that many people and read all the rulings just to say yes or no to retention.

 

[gottaluvPluto]

I always vote judges out, even if I don't know anything about the other person.

Amendments can be written in a confusing way and it takes me several times to understand what they are staying. However, I do the absentee ballots and I look up info on the amendments, but not the judges.

 

[mdrob214]

I leave the ones I don't know anything about (judges) blank. I don't want to make a mistake either way so I vote for what I know.

 

[Becky2005]

I confess. I am not always 100% informed on every matter on the ballot. Sometimes I read through the state and county questions 2-3 times and still have no clue what it's talking about. I just vote yes on most of the judges unless I've heard something bad about a specific judge.

I always know who I'm voting for for president/senate/representative. Some of the others are uneducted guesses.

Am I alone or will anyone else admit to this?

(Where's my flame suit?)

I did the same thing for the judges today!!! As I'm standing there reading the thing about "no one has any opponents, you are just voting for them to stay in their position" type of thing -- my thought was "well, if no one is running against them what happens if the no's win? Do we just not have any more judges?" I have heard zilch on them, so they must be doing an OK job because if they weren't it would have been all over the papers -- therefore they got yes, sure, they can keep their jobs this year.

 

[Becky2005]

I always vote judges out, even if I don't know anything about the other person.

You sound like my DH, he *always* votes tax increases down even if they are a good thing. It doesn't matter, he says he always votes no (basically without even looking at it -- the last time was for expanding the school that our kids USE!!)

Of course, this is probably why our library got enough votes to expand but then didn't get enough votes to actually FUND that expansion, so nothing happened. A yes, sure go ahead we could use a bigger library but no we aren't paying for it. I have no idea where people thought the money was going to come from (overdue library fines?). That was a few years ago though.

 

[Biscuitsmom31]

We got several booklets in the mail from the county explaining all the initiatives and propositions, we got booklets from the school districts explaining their issues, and of course all the junk mail from the candidates. The judges, sometimes we have 40 or 50 to vote on, there is a website that has all the info on them, but really, I have not enough time to go through that many people and read all the rulings just to say yes or no to retention.

The booklets sound like a great idea. We didn't get anything like that.

 

[cruellababy]

I uaually vote the whole republican line; except for this year and I voted the whole independence line- I really like the democratic congressional candidate that was there.

 

[Uncle Remus]

I use the google if I need to get more information.

 

[joviroxx]

I usually do as much research as possible. I then take the sample ballot thats issued about a week before and fill it out and then take it with me to vote. That way I don't have to remember everything.

 

[mumom95]

I do research before every election. Here is what I tend to do with people/issues I just can't decide on:

If I really don't have strong feelings one way or another about two candidates running for a position and there is an incumbent, I will usually vote for the incumbent. I figured if he/she has already had the job, why take it away if I don't have strong opinions one way or the other.

If I really don't have strong feelings one way or another about two candidates running for a position and there in no incumbent running, I usually pick the woman first, if no woman then the democrat.

I almost always vote for a levy, unless the organization has given me reason to believe they are wasting their money. I figure my living expenses go up every year, so organizations expenses must go up too.

If there is an issue for a consitutional ammendment that I just either don't understand or just don't care about, I tend to vote no. I usually have the attitude, why change what is current. Now, if I do agree with something, I have no problem voting yes to a constitutional ammendment.