Nick Switzer

I personally do not vote. But it’s not because I’m lazy or I don’t think my vote will matter, I have an actual reason for not voting. You see I do not feel that I know enough information about the candidate’s views to accurately gauge the person. I feel that many people are in the same boat as me, but vote anyhow. I compare this to a poll I took on my away message on AIM. What was this poll? It was a simple question, “is he bazooka proof?”

Obviously this doesn’t make that much sense since I did not tell you who it was, or exactly what the definition of bazooka proof. While I did have some people asking me who I was referring to, and some asking what exactly bazooka proof meant, I had others that simply answered without any hesitation. For about 8 hours I had this poll going, I had 7 people tell me that he was indeed bazooka proof, and 8 that said he was not.

Now, I don’t remember how many people asked me who I was talking about or what bazooka proof meant, but I just informed them that it was not anyone in particular and that they just need to answer yes or no. ::justin(”):: was one of the curious one’s asking me question after question then arguing with me when I said you could answer without knowing all the information. People do it all the time in voting for political offices. They may hear a little something about the person, or have someone that likes him for some reason, but may not have any real evidence of who they’re voting in office.

I will go ahead and explain that the source of this random question came from Drew in a discussion between him, Sean and myself. I won’t go into details, but it involved some amish guy and a pitchfork. Anyhow, I thought it would be funny to quote him on my away message, and the poll started when a few people randomly answered me. But I feel this is an accurate depiction of the way some people vote. I’m not saying that it is everyone who votes, nor that it is anyone’s fault that I am not fully educated on all matters that I should be. I am simply saying, from a personal standpoint, that if I do not have all the information, I do not want to make a decision.

In the words of ::scott(”):: (I believe he told me in 8th grade), “Due to the fact that I have not been informed to the highest degree of accuracy, I hesitate to articulate in fear of deviating from the true course of rectitude. By the way, thanks ::scott(”)::, that statement allowed me to receive 4 out of 8 points on an essay my freshman year on a question I had no clue about.