Principles

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Voting Principles

Here are some principles I use to guide my voting.

  1. Study (As much as possible.)
    • Read the analysis, candidate statements, arguments, rebuttals, whatever you can to get a clear picture of the candidate/bill.
  2. For independent candidates, and sometimes measures, review the endorsements.
    • Unions are generally indicative of liberals, whether their teachers, or police, or whatever.
    • Police organizations are not indications of conservatism. There are hundreds of them and they come in all political flavors.
  3. When in doubt, vote no.
    • Stability is important, and I generally don't think it wise to implement changes with ambiguous effects.
    • There is good reason to be suspicious that ambiguous and obtuse legislation is hiding something sinister.

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