Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am in lucky position of being able to vote in 3 countries: the US (presidential elections only), Poland (all elections) and Spain (local elections). I certainly vote in all Polish and Spanish elections (we have interesting local elections here in the Valencia region next year, and there are LOTS of corrupt politicians to kick out). I vote in US elections only when it is close in the state where I can vote (NJ, my last residence there), but usually it is not worth the effort since the Democrats almost always carry the state by a comfortable margin, so my vote does not make any difference--and the process of casting a US ballot from abroad is truly painful. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > The reason why I asked that is from my experience in India, most > armchair experts do not vote. My personal view is that forfeits their > right to pontificate about anything. I strongly support Brazil's > system where voting is legally compulsory, and not doing so is a > criminal offense. > > Incidentally, we have been having elections in one of our poorest and > least educated states, Bihar, and till now (the voting is held on six > days over a month in order to deploy police forces in sufficient > numbers), despite Maoist threats of violence the voting has been > around 55%. The interesting thing is that for the first time in living > memory, the elections would probably favour the incumbent Chief > Minister, Nitish Kumar, who again, for the first time in living memory > has actually brought development to the state. Ranged against him are > political parties who truly believe that educating the populace is > dangerous as it will eat into their vote bank! > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at >> gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Did all of you vote last time? >>> >> >> >> Two years ago, I did not vote in an election for millage renewal, and a >> city >> councilman. The favored one was my choice, and he won. I had to be out >> of >> town unexpectedly, otherwise I would have voted early. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny >> http://sonc.com/look/ >> Natchitoches, Louisiana >> >> USA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >