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by Carrelie » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:21 pm
by Salus Maior » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:22 pm
by San Lumen » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:28 pm
Carrelie wrote:As a Brit, I'm not the most well acquainted with your electoral college and senators and all that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that yes, voting in the US is useless. I've heard that if you live in the countryside, for example, your vote counts for basically nothing, while if you live in a city, your vote counts for basically everything, on the condition that you support the left. Again, I don't know much about how you do your voting and all that, and why it takes a month to count the votes and why you don't announce them at 4AM in a random school gym, so I may be wrong.
by Adamede » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:31 pm
Carrelie wrote:As a Brit, I'm not the most well acquainted with your electoral college and senators and all that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that yes, voting in the US is useless. I've heard that if you live in the countryside, for example, your vote counts for basically nothing, while if you live in a city, your vote counts for basically everything, on the condition that you support the left. Again, I don't know much about how you do your voting and all that, and why it takes a month to count the votes and why you don't announce them at 4AM in a random school gym, so I may be wrong.
by -Astoria- » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:44 pm
Adamede wrote:Carrelie wrote:As a Brit, I'm not the most well acquainted with your electoral college and senators and all that, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that yes, voting in the US is useless. I've heard that if you live in the countryside, for example, your vote counts for basically nothing, while if you live in a city, your vote counts for basically everything, on the condition that you support the left. Again, I don't know much about how you do your voting and all that, and why it takes a month to count the votes and why you don't announce them at 4AM in a random school gym, so I may be wrong.
Maybe you should actually read up on American elections from academic sources and not woke complaining on the internet.
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by -Ra- » Tue Dec 08, 2020 1:46 pm
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by -Astoria- » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:00 pm
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by Kowani » Tue Dec 08, 2020 2:12 pm
by San Lumen » Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:57 pm
Kowani wrote:San Lumen wrote:
Yes and I don't understand you point. What are the circumstances where a vote matters to you? Is the example I gave not one of them?
areas where a candidate needs to moderate or change a position so as to get turnout from people who would be otherwise opposed to them.
Think Amy Klobuchar, or Susan Collins.
Albany is not, because the political republican brand is toxic and the democratic candidates don't have to moderate their positions to take power.
There are situations in which the entire republican electorate could never have voted for decades and nothing would have changed from reality.
by Grill Pill » Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:07 pm
by Kowani » Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:39 am
San Lumen wrote:Kowani wrote:areas where a candidate needs to moderate or change a position so as to get turnout from people who would be otherwise opposed to them.
Think Amy Klobuchar, or Susan Collins.
Albany is not, because the political republican brand is toxic and the democratic candidates don't have to moderate their positions to take power.
There are situations in which the entire republican electorate could never have voted for decades and nothing would have changed from reality.
That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t vote.
To use Albany as an example again the people there obviously like what democrats have done or they wouldn’t have voted for them since 1931.
Idaho is an example of the opposite. Those not republican in Idaho should still vote.
by UniversalCommons » Wed Dec 09, 2020 1:06 am
by Betoni » Wed Dec 09, 2020 6:03 am
-Ra- wrote:To be honest, I feel like questions like this are dangerous because they promote political apathy, which itself poses an extreme risk to democracy.
Yes, your vote counts. Yes, you should vote. Anyone telling you that your vote is useless has ulterior, anti-democratic motives.
by San Lumen » Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:01 am
UniversalCommons wrote:Voting is useful at the local level. You only need a small amount of votes to determine who runs the library, the school board, and other local functions. Also how much the fire, parks, and police department get funded. Most people don't vote in these small elections which often count for a lot more than the large elections. It is fairly easy to get goofballs and troublemakers in because of this. Thing can get really off base if the local pastor or elks club is a little wacky and can take control of some of the local politics. The larger the unit, state, federal, the less impact votes tend to have.
by -Ra- » Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:04 am
San Lumen wrote:UniversalCommons wrote:Voting is useful at the local level. You only need a small amount of votes to determine who runs the library, the school board, and other local functions. Also how much the fire, parks, and police department get funded. Most people don't vote in these small elections which often count for a lot more than the large elections. It is fairly easy to get goofballs and troublemakers in because of this. Thing can get really off base if the local pastor or elks club is a little wacky and can take control of some of the local politics. The larger the unit, state, federal, the less impact votes tend to have.
Every vote matters in every election no matter where you are.
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by Plzen » Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:19 am
by San Lumen » Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:52 am
Plzen wrote:After reading over the last couple pages of debates, I think this discussion would be more enlightening with a clearer definition of what it means for a vote to matter.
by Eukaryotic Cells » Wed Dec 09, 2020 8:59 am
by Esalia » Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:03 am
by San Lumen » Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:12 am
Eukaryotic Cells wrote:I would say your vote matters if your district/state is swingable. It matters less if you live in a safe area; primary votes for the dominant party matter more in that case.
Esalia wrote:San Lumen wrote:Id like to know that as well. What is peoples definition of a vote mattering?
To me, whether or not a vote has can influence the outcome of an election.
For example, it's useless to vote in an uncontested election (presuming you can only vote for listed candidates and not write in one), since there's no way to change the outcome: the only candidate running wins.
It less useless in a race where there's multiple candidates running, and the least useless in a race where multiple candidates are running and more than one of them have a good chance of winning the election.
by Williamsburg town » Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:14 am
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