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To: jlallen who wrote (555778)	3/18/2010 12:26:50 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577945

If you don't vote, you've got no right to bitch. Nothing wrong with that. With citizenship comes the responsibility to exercise yur civic duties, including voting. Oh, i see...so the under-age and those who chose not to vote have no rights...what a fucking heartless idiot you must be. Al

To: jlallen who wrote (555778)	3/18/2010 7:13:41 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577945

I have to disagree with you strongly on that one. Everyone has "a right to bitch", and not just in the sense of a legal constitutional right, but more broadly, people should be able to complain as much as they want about our government whether or not the voted. Some people can't legally vote. Others see either choice as extremely horrible, and something they would feel wrong to endorse with a vote. People with such views also have a lot of reason to bitch. (I suppose they could vote for a third party candidate, but one isn't always on the ballot, they could write in someone, but in the absence of an extensive write in campaign that person has no chance to win, and usually even with one the write-in candidate doesn't have a realistic shot) Than there is the fact that your vote has an almost zero percent chance of actually determining who wins the election.