Getting Out The Youth Vote With A Dash Of Snark

LOL.

I would prefer that anyone who does not have a good understanding of the issues abstain from voting. For example, on my absentee ballot before me, I am asked to choose who I favor for "Soil & Water Conservation District Group 1." I don't have the foggiest idea who any of the candidates listed are, how they would or would not be qualified, or even what exactly they would be doing in that office. So I'm not voting on that one. But there are also lots of Americans who do not know much of anything about the candidates on their ballots for US Senator, Congressional Representative, or other major offices. Some Americans don't know much about what those offices entail (how a bill becomes law, where budgets come from, how treaties are ratified, and so forth.) Those people should wait until they have understood the issues, the offices, and the candidates before voting. Many (not all, but many) of those who don't know much about these things will be young (because youth involves inexperience). So, I've always been leery of the "Get out the youth vote" stuff - it seems like something that politicians and groups trying to pull a fast-one with slick ad campaigns use to pull in voters for their ballot-box usefulness without those voters really knowing what they're doing.

And WTH does a Soil & Water Conservation District Group 1 elected official do anyway? Is it going somewhere? Did somebody turn gravity off? Is the Group 2 guy stealing it and hauling it to his area? I have no idea.

Don't know if that will work either.