[Al Skierkiewicz]

A few words from some very intelligent, democratic thinkers....
Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
Abraham Lincoln

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Declaration of Independence

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. Kennedy, John F.

If you will do all you can to build a robot that meets the demands of 50+ pages of rules and spend the better part of six weeks doing so, why would you even think that a day or two spent in researching the candidates and actually voting is a waste of time? Freedom is not a gift, democracy is not your right. These are things one must earn through good citizenship. I voted for Richard Nixon in my first voting experience. I made that choice thinking I was voting for the lesser of two evils. I know now that I was still voting for evil. I did not make that choice ever again. I am not giving you the direction to stay home because you do not know the candidates, I am telling you to put down the Wii and do some research before you vote, but vote!