Why Should We Encourage the Uninformed to Get Out and Vote?

Thanks for this one ted, great point. I have always felt that if you don't know what your voting for, then be a patriot, do the country a favor on election day and stay home. I came across this video that illustrates my point. It's a little dated, back during the primaries but it is still relevant in what it says about the electorate in the country these days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zsr0UpVjoE

I agree with you. I believe that voting is a right as well as NOT voting. So to people that do not know the issues, excercise your right to NOT vote!

Hello ParaTed, I absolutely agree! It's really OK to not vote if politics isn't one's thing. People are busy, they have families to raise and jobs to go to. They don't have the time to decipher between 'fact' and 'bogus bunk'. This the very reason why there are so many professional political pundits. The problem is that each one of those pundits is 'pushing' their own perspective, not the average voters. So, when the voter bases their voting decisions on second or third-hand information, then they aren't really voting their own opinion anyway. I have long held that voting the way someone tells you to vote is nothing more than one person = how ever many voters they can sway to their agenda, instead of one person = one vote, which is how the Founding Fathers intended it some 233 years ago.

OMG! You've got to see this youtube video! LOL Howard Stern sends this guy to Harlem and asks people on the street questions about Obama and why they support him. It so funny and yet sad at the same time. Howard does use the f-word twice in the video but it's worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM2xHggg7Uk

Informed voting is the only way to go. Unfortunately, it's not the way it does go. What irks me the most, are the people who either don't vote, or who vote uninformed, and then gripe and complain about the state of the nation. In my opinion, those people have ZERO right to complain. Through conversation with some neighbours at a bus stop this morning, apparently only 54% of eligible voters for yesterdays Canadian Federal Election came out to the polls. How sad is that? Are the turnouts that terrible in the U.S. as well? During that conversation, I found out that one of my neighbours didn't vote at all. She refused to. She claimed that no one of the 5 candidates running represented what she wanted (of course, she didn't claim what it was that she wanted... I'll have to pin her down with that question soon lol). I told her she should've spoiled her vote then. That's better than not voting at all.