Waiting to vote., A small price to pay to assert control over our city government.
By now, candidates, your mother, friends – who seriously believe that their participation in the election makes them superior – and others have given you the standard reasons why you should vote. Let’s review them briefly…
New to the city, this primary will be the first time David Warnock has voted for Mayor.
The question is, “Have the leading candidates for Mayor been good citizens when it comes to voting?”
Take a look at the table below. You’ll have to click on the link to see it. Blow it up if the type is too small for you.
As may have read in our post, “Minority rule?“, the turnout at the last Mayoral Democratic primary, which was in 2011, was only 25%.
“That’s pathetic.”
If you don’t vote, this post is directed right at you. Last election, you were either too busy doing something you thought was more important, too lazy or you made the conscious decision that it wouldn’t make any difference. Maybe you didn’t like any of the candidates who were running, so why bother? Whatever your reason, you were a no show.
Baltimore Rising in favor of online voting. Why? It’s simple. Because we believe in majority rule.
Let’s just focus on two recent Baltimore City primaries. We’ll talk about primaries because, in Baltimore City, Democrats so outnumber Republicans that the winners of the Democratic primary are almost always victorious in the general election.