It's not just the voting, it's actually getting others to go with you to the polls today. If ever there was an important election and you could pick which one to vote in, this would be the one. Do not let your friends and family, neighbors and acquaintances, strangers and supermarket shoppers sit idly by, whilst the Constitution is burning. They will regret not taking part and fulfilling their role in history, for this is history in the making. It is the day when America has awakened: so punch the clock and let's get to work by sending a loud and clear message.
We have gone over
the scenarios. We know the stakes. We know their tactics and we are implementing countermeasures. We are well trained in spotting deception and trickery. We only need to do one more thing, act and execute our civil duty (and your one last freedom still hanging in there by a thread) and vote.
We are well trained and we know we cannot stop there. We must multiply our vote by getting other eligible registered voters out to vote. This is the key to victory: voter turnout. I won't belabor the high price that is already paid so that we can have the freedom to vote and choose our representatives, but it is disheartening to see those who do not vote, dishonor those who have paid that price for them.
Factoid: (Logically rearrangement of data mine)
Year- 1998 [Congressional Election Year]
Population- 280,298,524
VAP- 210,446,120 (Voting Age Pop.)
Registered- 141,850,558
Total votes- 73,117,022
Reg/VAP- 67.4%
Vote/Reg- 51.5%
Vote/VAP- 34.7%
and
Motivating Voters
Voter apathy is key to the phenomenal ascent of the theocratic right in the U.S. government.
"With the apathy that exists today, a small, well-organized minority can influence the selection of candidates to an astonishing degree."
who said this?
Why it was nut job extradinaire Pat Robertson in 1990.
Doing the math.
Hypothetically, let's say there is a close race and the final is 49.5% to 47.8% with 2.7% going to spoilage, write-ins or third party's. The difference between the winner and the loser is 1.7 percentage points. But only 34.7% of voting age people actually cast a ballot, making that 1.7 pecent of ("of" means times) 34.7%, which therefore means 0.59% of all voting age persons or 0.88% of total registered voters made the final difference in the outcome.
If only one person out of 100 asked showed up to vote, then the victory would swing the other way. It is up to us now and duty to our country calls. Send a message to the war criminals in the White House and Congress that we mean to take our country back.
History is in the making today and action is called for.
Vote. It is our right and it is our duty.
Get others to come with you. It is their right and it is their duty. Godspeed.