The Most Important Election You’ll Probably Skip
The future prosperity of your state may be decided this November.
Will your public schools receive adequate, equitable and sustainable funding?
Will you be permitted to choose medical marijuana to treat certain ailments?
Will your state enact sensible gun reforms to keep firearms out of the hands of the criminally insane?
Will your voice be heard in future elections?
All this and more is on the table and YOU get to cast the deciding vote.
But more likely than not, you won’t show up.
Why? You’re too busy worrying about the upcoming Presidential election.
With both Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries approaching in February through June, 2016, most people just don’t have the energy for another general election before the end of 2015.
However, most states will ask residents to cast a ballot on Nov. 3 for all kinds of important initiatives. There will be municipal, school board, gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states; as well as numerous citizen initiatives, and a variety of other local offices on the ballot.
Yet if history is any guide, most people will stay home while vastly important decisions are being made by the few who trudge to the polls. On the one hand, that means the results are bound to be unrepresentative. On the other, it means if you show up, your vote will have more weight than ever!
Either way, the course for the future of your state will be quietly and discreetly set for years to come.
Take my home state of Pennsylvania.
We’re holding a historic election with three state Supreme Court seats up for grabs. The last time this many seats were open on our highest court in the same year was The Most Important Election You’ll Probably Skip | gadflyonthewallblog:
