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Many anti-voters took the time to share the specifics of their position: They didn't like any of the candidates; they didn't like the primary system; they didn't like the two-party system; they didn't like the electoral college; they didn't think their vote mattered; they 'weren't interested in politics'; and some variation of 'politicians are all a bunch of crooks.' While these are all legitimate grievances, they are not legitimate reasons for disenfranchising oneself from the system. They are, in fact, reasons to vote; anyone truly concerned with these problems would be trying to remedy them through voting. Anti-voters don't care about these problems; if they did, they would be impassioned voters, not anti-voters. Anti-voters are not turned off. They are intentionally tuned out. There was also this excuse: Anti-voters don't want to serve on jury duty. Let's consider this for a moment. What fundamental tenet of American democracy could possibly rank up there with the right to vote? Hmmm. Could it possibly be the right to a fair trial? Sacrificing the right to vote in order to avoid serving on a jury represents a surplus of ignorance and a deficit of morality so severe ... I don't have the words to finish this sentence. I suppose anti-voters at least score points for consistency here. Across the board, democracy and liberty are just not their thing. (Note to anti-voters: In many states, it's your driver's license, not your voter registration, that puts you in the jury pool. Ha. Ha. Ha.) And then there were the people who honestly didn't seem to grasp the concept at all. I don't know how many times I would ask someone about registering only to have them respond, 'Vote for what?' In past elections, voter apathy and low voter turnout have been blamed on prolonged peace and prosperity. Complacent and content voters need crisis and hardship to fire them up, the argument went. This theory, perhaps, has been somewhat proven by the record number of new voters
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