You're familiar with the Candidates but what about the Amendments?

spalladino I have yet to read the amendments but a m going to as I want to know all of the pros and cons on it. I vote absentee so have the ballot now but must really read up on all these issues. I have y er to really study the amendments.Being an involved voter means a lot more than just choosing candidates, we must know what each amendment will do so we can know if we want this done or not done.

It would be nice if we could receive the Amendments with the pros and cons listed. Often people do not even know that Amendments are on the ballot.

These are things that people really really REALY need to be aware of. Once they are voted on and passed...there they are, part of your states constitution. These have an even greater effect than law as they themeselves affect law, including laws already on the books. Amendments to our state constitutions can remove multiple existing laws or even create multiple new laws with just a few lines. In New Hampshire, we don't have direct ballot proposiions. We do have ballot props that introduce legislation or state constitutional amandments to our legislaure for vote, but we are not a direct democratic state. There are times when I wish we were but in thinking about it, it can be a razor sharpn double edge sword if weilded carelessly. Just look at California. They have done some good things through referendums, but by the same token, they have done a lot of really destructive things to their state's economy as well.

I don't think Ohio has any. I haven't heard anything and I have found any with searches either. I hate going into vote and reading the screen trying to figure out what the issue is and of course they can't ever seem to put it so the every day person can understand what they are saying.

Hi spalladino! You are right that most people, including me don't know what Amendments are up to be voted on. And I am ashamed to say that me and my girlfriend who I usually go to vote with are reading it at the last minute before we actually go into the voting booth! We get bombarded with so many political commercials on tv, that are negging the opposite candidates, mailboxes full of the same that all it does is the confuse the issues! I spent 2 weeks in Florida and it was the same as it is in NY! I asked my Mom if she knew who was running and she pretty much didn't and didn't seem to care! We have to care in NY because we live in the most screwed up, corrupt and messed up state there is! I'm not sure it will really matter in the end, but we have to try to vote for the person we think will be the lesser of the two evils!

I don't keep up with politics very much and I don't know what amendments are coming up in my state. However, I do think being an informed voter involves more than choosing candidates. I would like to say this, though. What I can't stand is the constant bashing of the opponents we see on television all the time. We used to never see this in the past. I also don't like getting the calls on my telephone telling me to vote for so and so when it gets closer to voting time.

When it comes to Voting and criterias on an amendment or something a lot of times I think people, especially when not going to be effected by it, Vote on how the media is telling them to vote or feel instead of reading up on it themselves. Even when voting for someone in office a lot of times people are prone to do this as well, and it is Sad. Personally if more people out there would do more research before taking time to vote for someone or something, I think it would change many times the outcome of it all for sure.

This is another instance where I think a pre-vote quiz should be given but fat chance of that--uninformed voters are politicians' bread & butter! I always read the voting materials sent to me. Here in Ohio they're not good about sending stuff like they were when I lived in the Southwest so I have to look things up a lot. I arrive at the voting booth with a list of yes/no and candidates I've decided to vote for so I won't get confused. Sure, it's boring reading all that stuff because most of it's not in plain English, but it's worth some time to protect my rights and privileges. Voting is not a casual exercise and should be taken seriously--I wish more people would care enough to research and think before they vote. (In some ways, the media has become the most dangerous enemy of the average voter because the voters have let the media take away the need to think.)