Voting vs not voting -- a poll

[CrispyQ]

Poll question: Voting vs not voting -- a poll

Wondering how others will respond to ongoing election fraud.



At what point will your confidence in the American electoral process become so diminished that you choose not to vote.

[NaturalHigh]

1. I always vote.

[nuxvomica]

2. They want us to stop voting so I'll keep doing it

If we don't vote, it just makes fixing the elections easier and I don't want to make it easy for them.

[merwin]

3. I think this poll is rigged, so i refuse to vote :-)

[TahitiNut]

4. Read this. (I wrote it in 2002.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/10/16_voting.html

[Az]

5. Not voting no matter how bad the corruption won't fix anything

The first step is to vote. And then you can demand action when the corruption is dragged out into the daylight. If you render yourself silent then you have little say in anything.

[jwirr]

6. If I stop voting then they will win that much more. At least

when I vote I know I did what I could.

[Extend a Hand]

7. I picked quit after 08 in the case of election fraud

but that's only because I plan on leaving the country in that event.

[leanin_green]

8. I'm already there and have started to fight back in other ways.

Until there is at least a break in the story around election tally fraud, I will not play their game. Until there is at least the beginning of some sort of investigation, I can no longer participate in the charade. Until there are indictments and an outraged populace, I can't be a part of the race to the cliff.

[mongo]

9. It is important to keep voting

even in the light of fraud. Really, they can only sway the election by a certain percentage.

[helderheid]

10. voting absentee on a paper ballot and working on a ballot initiative for

vote by mail

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. I vote because there are local elections and issues that can still

be resolved democratically even though I feel higher offices are more likely to have rigged races.

[TheStates]

12. Should vote no matter what....

And keep fighting non-stop to get rid of the fraud machines, and put in paper ballots. Anything less is to sell out the elections to the highest bidder.

[OKNancy]

13. I don't think there is one subject on DU that pisses me off more

Than the moaners and the groaners who say.. "why vote, it won't count" That sounds like vote supression to me. It's much more dangerous than what any Republican could do.

[CrispyQ]

14. You make an excellent point about a defeatist attitude being

more dangerous than the repubs.

I am inspired by this poll. I've read many, many threads today that are dismal & downheaded. People feeling anger & worse, hopelessness. I admit that I fight these feelings, too. But I will always vote. I'm trying hard to convince my husband to do the same!

Thanks to all who participated!