Comments on: How to Vote http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/11/04/how-to-vote/ (A figment of everyone's imagination gets back into the blogging thing) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Blogwatch (mostly post-election links) http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/11/04/how-to-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-131975 Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Blogwatch (mostly post-election links) Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:36:47 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=120#comment-131975 [...] How to vote (OK, I didn’t link this advice till after you voted, but you can keep it in mind for next time.) [...] [...] How to vote (OK, I didn’t link this advice till after you voted, but you can keep it in mind for next time.) [...]

]]> By: Lynn Gazis-Sax http://www.mythago.com/blog/2008/11/04/how-to-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-131914 Lynn Gazis-Sax Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:56:04 +0000 http://www.mythago.com/blog/?p=120#comment-131914 I have to admit that there have only been one or two elections where I tried reading <em>all</em> the ballot measures - but then, what I usually do is first figure out which ones I don't have to look at closely because I know I'm voting them down (totally opposed to the proposition in principle, or every organization I respect is recommending against it), and then look more closely at what's left. Good advice, though; all too often measures that sound good in the summary are train wrecks in their actual details. I have to admit that there have only been one or two elections where I tried reading all the ballot measures – but then, what I usually do is first figure out which ones I don’t have to look at closely because I know I’m voting them down (totally opposed to the proposition in principle, or every organization I respect is recommending against it), and then look more closely at what’s left.

Good advice, though; all too often measures that sound good in the summary are train wrecks in their actual details.

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