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Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:03:47 AM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:42:53 AM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 12:41:19 PM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 12:43:44 PM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 3:56:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		No, I don't cast a ballot if a candidate is running unopposed, or if I have not done my due diligence and researched the candidates.

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 6:00:08 PM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 6:47:31 PM   
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I personally follow the W. C. Fields' line:

"When faced with a tough voting choice, I always vote "against" rather than vote "for".

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 6:49:11 PM   
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Yes.

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:09:50 PM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:12:13 PM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:14:10 PM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:17:58 PM   
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

No, I don't cast a ballot if a candidate is running unopposed, or if I have not done my due diligence and researched the candidates.

Same here.

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/24/2012 10:58:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

No, I don't cast a ballot if a candidate is running unopposed, or if I have not done my due diligence and researched the candidates.


That's admirable. I myself haver never not done the due digence piece.

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/25/2012 5:26:37 AM   
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ORIGINAL: FMRFGOPGAL
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
No, I don't cast a ballot if a candidate is running unopposed, or if I have not done my due diligence and researched the candidates.

That's admirable. I myself haver never not done the due digence piece.


I'm not following your last statement. I wouldn't believe you if you said you don't research before an election at all. I'm interpreting your comment as stating that you will vote in an individual election without researching both sides, as opposed to my choosing to not vote if I haven't done my research of both sides in an individual election.

How do you decide who to vote for if you haven't done your due diligence? Do you go with a straight party vote in non-researched individual elections?

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/25/2012 6:23:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I thought she meant something like she gets a sample ballot ahead of time, researches the candidates and issues, and, having completed her due diligence, makes an informed decision about every issue on the ballot when she votes.

During the last election, I was in Broward County, FL, where this policy is in place:

http://www.broward.org/Commission/District6/Newsletters/Pages/NewsletterAugust2012.aspx

Primary elections take place on August 14 and it will help to prepare and plan ahead before you go to the polls to vote. A sample ballot (which you should receive in the mail) will help you familiarize yourself with the candidates. It’s okay to fill out your sample ballot ahead of time and bring it to your polling place to use as a guide when casting your vote.



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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/25/2012 6:41:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		Now I'm in Massachusetts, and there are three questions on the ballot this year. Information about these issues, as well as how to register to vote and where to vote is on the Secretary of State's website.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ele12/ballot_questions_12/message12.htm

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/25/2012 7:21:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yeah, I generally do - unless I unintentionally make a mistake somehow.

But this ad was really great. An excellent reminder to people to truly look at the whole ballot.

Although, I will add, certainly no one is under any obligation to place a vote on everything on the ballot. Obviously we can leave things blank if that's what we choose to do. But it would be nice if the blanks were all intentional rather than inadvertent.

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/25/2012 10:24:01 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

I thought she meant something like she gets a sample ballot ahead of time, researches the candidates and issues, and, having completed her due diligence, makes an informed decision about every issue on the ballot when she votes.

During the last election, I was in Broward County, FL, where this policy is in place:

http://www.broward.org/Commission/District6/Newsletters/Pages/NewsletterAugust2012.aspx

Primary elections take place on August 14 and it will help to prepare and plan ahead before you go to the polls to vote. A sample ballot (which you should receive in the mail) will help you familiarize yourself with the candidates. It’s okay to fill out your sample ballot ahead of time and bring it to your polling place to use as a guide when casting your vote.




Yeah, that's what I do. But sometimes, in local and county elections, candidates don't do a good job of putting themselves out there and you can't find much info about them (this is especially true if they're really only running so the incumbent isn't unopposed). That makes it hard or impossible to do due diligence about those particular races.

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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/26/2012 2:44:22 AM   
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RE: Do you fill out the entire ballot when you vote? - 9/26/2012 3:40:48 AM   
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If I can, I vote the ballot. I will say this, I make a very concerted effort to obtain as much information as possible and I rock at research so I think I'm above average in that regard but I don't want to put people into office whom I can't vet or vote for new laws and such without knowledge and I don't know about others but a lot of time I get my vote docs and candidates have nothing more than their name and either an R or a D by their name and that's just not good enough for me.

I believe, in my state, that candidates and issues are allowed space in our pre-election booklets without cost so there is no excuse for not, at least, putting minimal information out there for the voters. The only reason, really, that I can think is that a candidate didn't get their information in on time or just couldn't be bothered and that's not someone I'd want in office anyway. If elections are not important enough to them to get their shit together, then they aren't important enough to me for me to vote for them.

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