[!CrackMonkey!] Public Service Announcement: VOTE!!!
Monkey Master and Prince Regent of San Francisco
monkeymaster at crackmonkey.org
Tue Nov 5 11:56:05 PST 2002
begin Shawn McMahon quotation:
> If you're incapable of remembering to vote without somebody reminding
> you, then please, don't vote.
http://zork.net/pipermail/crackmonkey/2001q1/016604.html
> I once propounded the notion that not only is it dangerous to
> buy and sell voters--but it is even more dangerous to spend
> our time trying to get them into the voting booth. You know
> what I'm talking about: this: "Vote as you please, but please
> vote." Somehow we have the misguided idea that quantity is
> important to democracy.
>
> I disagree--I have always preferred quality. And I think the
> voters who have to be dragged from the offices, pulled from
> their beds, yanked from their TV sets to get them to vote:
> those are the wrong ones to be in the booth. If their
> motivation is so lousy, their knowledge of the candidates and
> issues must be equally lousy: I'd just as soon see them stay
> in bed on election day.
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A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
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