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Tomorrow, I am not going to vote...
...Elrod, who joined the HRC this fall, is still processing the implications of her vote, including her feelings toward the controversial choice of Palin as McCain’s running mate. When I ask her to speak about Palin as we complete a round of canvassing earlier this month, Elrod responds with the same sassy confidence as the candidate she admires...
...Council. I represented a potential constituent. We sat eating cereal and discussing Harvard’s same-gender rooming policy, on which we held opposing views. A nearby classmate, overhearing our debate, suggested that the longer Motley persisted with the conversation, the more likely he was to lose my vote...
...Better her vote than my morals,” Motley responded, smiling. He suggested that we change the topic...
...Democracy, of course, would not exist without the right to vote. The ability to participate in one’s government is an essential check on corruption and ensures that the ruling power serves the interests of those ruled. In a Lockean sense, it also represents the consent of the people that defines civil government. But people have forgotten that there is another right essential to American democracy, nearly as important in what it symbolizes: the right not to vote...