"Good citizen" or "Cross-eyed and with seventeen"
I'm trying to do the right thing and prepare myself to to vote tomorrow on state and local measures and candidates, but it's frustrating. I want to be a good citizen and and be informed and for me, this means more than just reading the summary. I like to know where these propositions and candidates are coming from, who's putting in money to back
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I hear you!
Alabama has 14 amendments that are on the ballot today. I found one summary on my local league of women voters website. They have a brief summary of each amendment and then a break down saying a vote yes means this and a vote no means that.
I'm only clear right now on how I plan to vote on the first two amendments right now. The others make my head spin and are so specific to certain counties I wonder why they are up for statewide voting. Then I remember that Alabama's constitution has been amended 892 times.
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I checked the League of Women Voters site, too. It was helpful, but I think the KCET (one of our local PBS channels, or at least it used to be) did better at breaking it down for me, including one-minute videos where the lady talked really fast, but helped clarify quite a bit for me. Still, there were a few I didn't vote on because I just couldn't decide. I hope you've figured out your ballot by now!
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I did on most of them. A few of them only affected one county, not mine, so I opted not to vote on those.
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Nice to "see" you around!
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