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April 16, 2024

FLASHPOINT for Oct 23, 2006

By Jon Ralston

I am now reduced to making this plea in this limited space and after many of you have already done it: Don't do it. It is early voting, the infernal creation of do-gooders who have done wrong. They have made voting even less important, reducing it to a triviality like picking up bread at the market or a new pair of shoes at the mall. And considering the scandals or potential scandals that have broken lately, wouldn't it be better to wait? And how many of you could pass a quiz on the initiatives or the down-ballot races? Are you all really so lazy that you are willing to declare yourselves ignorant and vote before all the information is in? Can you really live with yourselves? Is anyone listening to me at this point?

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