
Journal pudge's Journal: Stupid People 12
There are a lot of ridiculously stupid people who vote.
There was a measure on the Washington statewide ballot this year, Senate Joint Resolution 8207, which modifies how members of the Commission on Judicial Conduct are selected.
I am not saying you are stupid if you voted for it, or against it. I don't care about that. But I heard not one word about it on TV or radio, saw nothing about it online, and saw barely anything about it in print. So I can't imagine that many others knew much more about it than I did.
Yet, it is passing overwhelmingly, so we have hundreds of thousands of voters voting for something they don't really know anything about, which isn't uncommon, except that this is a Constitutional Amendment. People are voting to amend the Constitution and they don't even know what they are voting for.
It's maddening. I'm
Moo (Score:2)
Re:Moo (Score:2)
And that's just their news stories. Editorials are even worse. [slashdot.org] (Warning: The BS word is used in this link. And I don't mean Barbara Streisand.)
Re:Moo (Score:2)
You make a good point in the first link.
Re:Moo (Score:2)
Re:Moo (Score:2)
As for making the language easier, that would require making it wordier, and the more the words, the more the actual meaning could be twisted.
Perhaps a law or amendment could be associated with an attached explanation, or reasoning, which wold not be part of the law itself, but set the tone and context for future understanding.
Re:Moo (Score:2)
wrong! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:wrong! (Score:2)
No. In this case it is true. There's no possible way hundreds of thousands of people knew what was in this Amendment.
another reason for an informed elctorate (Score:2)
For two weeks, the SF Chronicle gave half a page of it's opinion section to the pro and con side of t
A friend of mine pointed out (Score:2)
Of course, there are times when a measure is too sensitive, and your congress critter won't touch it. But those are the types of measures that need careful reading anyway.
So it makes sense to me, that if I don't understand an issue, I vote against it. Either the people putting the measure on the ballot ne
Re:A friend of mine pointed out (Score:2)
I wonder... (Score:2)
I've seen this happen before with a survey. One item on there was something that those surveyed could not possibly express an informed opinion about; it was left on the form by accident and concerned a service that was not actually offered by the company and, therefore, could not be ranked.
If I recall correctly, it was the majority that had something other than "Don't Know" circled. I don't remember h