Comments | purplebob: Low-information voting

purplebob

Low-information voting

Nov 02, 2010 09:47

VoteSmart let me down, by leaving off the Governor's Councillor race and the ballot questions ( Read more... )

Comments 5

dzm November 2 2010, 20:09:16 UTC

I was a little surprised to see the full "impartial" summary of Question 2 printed on the ballot. It makes the question sound big and complicated, when in fact it wants to repeal a small amount of law in complicated ecosystem. I think both the text of the initiative and Chapter 40B sections 20 through 23 would have required less space.

archonsengine November 2 2010, 20:12:17 UTC

I'm curious, why pick someone arbitrarily in the Governor's Council race? When there's no way to really choose, wouldn't it make sense to abstain?

purplebob November 2 2010, 21:25:25 UTC

Okay, my vote wasn't entirely arbitrary. I did have the party affiliations listed on the ballot, which are better than nothing. And I used that information to cast an utterly pointless vote, which I see as slightly better than no vote at all ( ... )

archonsengine November 2 2010, 21:37:09 UTC

All right, so we're talking a small (but significant) step above "arbitrary" here. Your logic makes much more sense to me. Thanks for clarifying!

lorimt November 3 2010, 02:09:23 UTC

As far as I can tell, No on 2 was a good call, though the best evidence is that everyone working on housing the poor seems against it. It looks like there's a unified permit if and only if you do a bunch of things, one of which is include low-income housing. My impression is that a "yes" on 2 lets them get the nice permit without having to actually do anything for it.