This will probably be short and sweet, well at least short. Voting is a right. For some more than others it’s a hard-earned right. For everyone it’s a highly respected right. But I argue that voting is not a duty.
The implication is that you must vote whether you know who is running or whether you have an opinion whether you have researched you must show up at the polls and do your duty and vote.
This is wrong! You will do more damage to the freedom of this country by voting when you don’t have a working knowledge of the candidates or their platforms.
Actually you mathematically do twice the damage of a single, informed voter!
How is that possible? assume there is a right candidate and a wrong candidate. If you choose idly and choose the wrong candidate you have doubled your vote against the right candidate. By not voting at all the wrong candidate does not receive a vote.
Had you been informed, and voted for the right candidate you would have moved him two positions higher than by voting for the incorrect or wrong candidate by not understanding what you were doing.
So by voting for the wrong candidate when you really wanted the right candidate you have done twice the damage of a single voter. In my humble opinion, if you are not informed your duty is, to not vote.
Voting is truly your right and becoming educated about the candidates, and the effects of their platforms to your values, is your duty, but if you don’t do a little research, stay home and avoid damage to our democratic republic.
