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Old 11-01-2012, 09:14 AM   #24
Lamplighter
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My ballot access complaint is not trivial. 100,000 Pennsylvania voters and 40,000 ballot access petition signatories were strategically disenfranchised before the election began. To participate in this process means to accept pretend that the resulting election is fair and representational. The people who died for that notion have already been shit on. In some ways, if I vote, I'm shitting on them too.
UT, I'm glad you posted this last paragraph.
I had completely misunderstood your reason(s) for boycotting the politics threads.

I would agree and join you, but in reality it is only by participating
in your local elections that such situations can be changed.

There's still the old election cliche: "THROW THE BASTARDS OUT"
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