I just read an article from this writer that lacks of focus and manipulates information. When a contributor of a magazine/a writer will stop pushing his own agenda? ,when a writer will take distance of the reality of the moment and projet himslef into the future?, when in a country with no link or association to any church in particular will stop to use the name JESUS to increase the emotinal stage of a citizen and conquer pre-established subjects? when the churches with NO tradition in history will stop adressing and using the word SATAN to perturb the mind of many? when a writer will be able to stop manipulating the words and use them as a tool to let the reader take a decision on a subject, rather than give an answer camouflaged over prestine graduate words?
I ask this writer to instreuct himself on international matters. Compare the style of livign of MANY european countries that after decades of wars have learned that a socialized environment is much better way to push the middle class and create a more equal society.
A debate on many matters should take place with a write who uses the columns of a newspaper as a white canvas to publish nonsense or lack of sense realities.
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Farewell, Election Day
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An early reason for absentee voting was to prevent the disenfranchisement of people—Civil War soldiers in the field—who could not get to polling places. Today, however, as John Fortier of the American Enterprise Institute notes in his book "Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils," the academic consensus is that mail and absentee-ballot voting "has little or no effect on voter turnout except in low-turnout elections." This might be partly because dispersing voting over many weeks complicates voter-mobilization efforts. Furthermore, those unusually partisan and informed people who take advantage of early voting options are not typically the poor or people who, absent those options, would be nonvoters.
The second problem with early voting is that one of its supposed benefits is actually a subtraction from civic health. The benefit is that it makes voting easier—indeed, essentially effortless. But surely the quality of the electoral turnout declines when the quantity is increased by "convenience voting."
A word describes most of the people who will vote only if a ballot is shoved through their mail slot: "slothful." What kind of people will not bestir themselves to exercise their franchise if doing so requires them to get off their couches and visit neighborhood polling places? People who are barely interested, and hence probably are barely informed.
The requirement that voters go to a polling place is a slight filter that has the negative function of screening out people who are almost completely uninterested. But the requirement also has a positive virtue.
The great national coming-together that Election Day has been and should be is a rare communitarian moment in this nation of increasingly inwardly turned individualists who are plugged into their iPods or lost in reveries with their iPhones. It is one thing, and an admirable thing, to privatize airports, turnpikes and many other government entities and operations; it is not admirable to scatter to private spaces, and over many weeks, the supreme act of collective public choice. The coming of the public into public places for the peaceful allocation of public power should be an exhilarating episode in our civic liturgy.
With political excitement at an amazing boil this year, election officials in some communities are hoping that a surge of early voting will reduce the possibility that unusually heavy turnouts on Nov. 4 will cause local polling mechanisms to buckle under the strain. Good grief. Has the approach of Election Day—the fact that 2008 is divisible by four—taken these officials by surprise?
Elections are government projects, so perhaps it is utopian to expect them to be well run. Still, it is time for second—or in some cases, first—thoughts about the fading away of Election Day.
© 2008
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