Comments on: Does Anyone Care About Voter Apathy?

By: dog

dog — Wed, 29 May 2013 03:44:06 +0000

To heck with citizenship. We need a real war so we can have real heroes and parades. ( I have three cases of “Support the Troops” car magnets no one wants.)

By: grumpy ole man

grumpy ole man — Sun, 26 May 2013 03:54:16 +0000

Mybad on the Gbad, was out of town before I realized the election was scheduled, so didn’t get an absentee ballot. Poor citizenship at work.

By: john

john — Fri, 24 May 2013 04:03:49 +0000

We don’t need a downtown ballpark and I voted against it. It’s admirable to aspire to create and have a better world but Boise is just too small to justify it.

By: Ateam 88

Ateam 88 — Fri, 24 May 2013 03:01:15 +0000

Bikeboy. It’s the first Tuesday after the first Monday. Not the second Tuesday. 🙂

By: Flyhead

Flyhead — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:01:21 +0000

I am not sure election consolidation has done much for voter turnout. I live in Canyon County and went to the elections webpage and could not figure out if I had anything to actually vote on this time around. We elected to stay home and not spend the time and effort going to polling place only to find out we had nothing to vote on this time around.

I do like to comment of having everything decided in November. The closed primary is a real turn off for turnout.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:19 +0000

I read several articles on this election in the last couple weeks. The daily paper, here, boise weekly, and local new stations all covered the election. The coverage was just fine. Most people don’t care about convention centers or baseball stadiums. I do though along with my two friends I convinced to vote. Looks like the few interested voters in boise have spoken, and they want a baseball stadium. Just like parking at the airport.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:19:31 +0000

Pathetic! But the people who didn’t bother to vote will show up later to complain. All elections should be in November. Why spend money and employee time in elections office for an election in May?

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:52:25 +0000

The government and TV stations do not make it clear well in advance when a vote will happen. Additionally, the court system uses the list of active voters to draft a jury, potentially causing lost wages.

By: David B. Hall

David B. Hall — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:27:48 +0000

I would like to point out that Dave Bieter shelled out $150k in the last election. I spent nothing, $0.00 dollars and still took 26% of the voter turnout, which I think was still only 16% of the registered voters.

There is a lot of apathy in Idaho politics, and those in these offices know this, they count on it, hence why they had an under publicized election in May.

Honesty had I known sooner, I would have got my name on the ballot for this election.

Without spending any money I got 4200 odd votes for mayor of Boise, I bet I could have come up with half of that for one of these positions.

Oh well, good thing there’s still the Governor’s spot to shoot for in 2014.

See ya then
David B. Hall

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Wed, 22 May 2013 18:39:25 +0000

“Guilty as charged, your honor.”

I didn’t vote. I didn’t feel like I was well-informed enough to vote. (The only thing worse than apathetic voters are ignorant voters.) I read the Guardian columns, but expanded convention space and publicly-funded baseball palace both seemed pretty unappealing. Maybe “cynical” is more accurate than “apathetic.”

I even let my sister down. She expects me to have an opinion on everything, and asked for advice on the GBAD. I told her I didn’t feel I was well-informed enough to have a strong opinion on it.

(I’m in TOTAL agreement that all public votes should be held the 2nd Tuesday in November, even-numbered years. I’d rather get informed and vote 20 pages of material, than vote 3 or 4 times a year for city, state, school board, county, GBAD, you name it. But that doesn’t excuse me; I dropped the ball.)