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Why do Christians in the voting booth help billionaires instead of people in poverty?

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You don't know what "Most Christian pro-life voters..." do because the voting booth is private.
 
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True. The whole system is rigged from the top down.
"Trickle down" is a total lie. Trickle up is the truth. Adam was not created with a huge bank account. There were no rich or poor to begin with. There was no money to begin with. He who has the gold makes the rules.
 
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You don't know what "Most Christian pro-life voters..." do because the voting booth is private.

It's common knowledge that Christians predominantly vote Republican. However, even if this weren't true my post would still apply to Christians who do vote Republican.
 
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It's common knowledge that Christians predominantly vote Republican. However, even if this weren't true my post would still apply to Christians who do vote Republican.

Whose common knowledge? Yours and the secular media? Decades ago I was a Democrat. Then I became an independent. You're parroting what you have heard.
 
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Whose common knowledge? Yours and the secular media? Decades ago I was a Democrat. Then I became an independent. You're parroting what you have heard.

I know that nearly everybody in every church I have ever gone to will vote straight ticket republican. These people believe it is Gods will and it is reinforced from the pulpit. Until very recently I was this way myself until Donald Trump threw his name in the ring then I started thinking what if he is the republican presidential nominee could I as a christian vote for him then I started anylyzing the people I have cited for and found them wanting then I wonder what kind of man God would want me to vote for I prayed read my bible and was led to the conclusion that the type if men God would have me vote for would due to their scruples be unavailable for political office. I believe only a write in would be morally acceptable and since that is unproductive for the second time since I turned eighteen I will not vote I was incapable last time. When I explain this to "Christian" friends and family they range in responses from a blank stare to denouncing me as a sinner who needs to change his ways some even have scripture for this. Just my experince with no media influence I dont watch news or read political stuff in the paper much anymore as it has ceased to matter to me.
 
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Congratulations on realizing the truth. Mainstream sources are all compromised, but you can stay current on the lies thru alternative news sites. I maintain it is important to vote a write-in because non-participation is viewed as apathy or consent.
 
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Congratulations on realizing the truth. Mainstream sources are all compromised, but you can stay current on the lies thru alternative news sites. I maintain it is important to vote a write-in because non-participation is viewed as apathy or consent.

I thought that at first but a write in seems a waste of time it always takes hours to vote.
 
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I thought that at first but a write in seems a waste of time it always takes hours to vote.

The laws vary by state, but a write-in vote is important only if it makes you feel good to have done this.

It may or may not be counted, and it certainly will not be reported anywhere until many months later when some obscure government website MAY list your vote on some spreadsheet. And that will happen only if the person(s)--remember that you have to have a Vice-Presidential candidate, too--are announced candidates of one of the half-dozen or so minor parties. If you decide, for instance, to write-in Colin Powell (for example), it will never be recorded anywhere.
 
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Feeling good about writing my own name in is far better than feeling anything less or having mixed feelings about not voting at all or voting for a lesser evil.
When did feeling good about what I do fall out of fashion? Was it when winning was supposed to be more important?
 
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Feeling good about writing my own name in is far better than feeling anything less aoiut not voting at all or voting for a lesser evil.
When did feeling good about what I do fall out of fashion? Was it when winning was supposed to be more important?

I could never write in my own name id never vote for someone like me for political office I don't have the integrity.
 
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Hey. I didn't say that this would be an improper motive, did I?

No, but anyone who thinks about doing this ought to go into it with his eyes open and understand the way the election laws, etc. operate--which few people who talk about writing-in do. Of course, this is not something that the average person would have much reason to be expert in, I quite understand.

So my point is simply this--don't do it if you think you are sending some message to the world; do it only if you want to be at ease with your own conscience and no minor party candidate is acceptable.
 
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A write in for president cannot win I hope that most americans have at least a pretty solid grasp on the electoral college and such the write in would be more a principal thing.
 
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If they are running then what makes them ineligible to receive votes?

There are layers of qualifications. To be registered with the federal government as a candidate is one thing, but to be qualified to have votes counted for you, there are additional regulations which vary with the state since elections are primarily a state responsibility. Many require you to file appropriate papers by a certain date to register merely to have votes for you counted in that state. No such registration, you're a candidate but not with the prospect of getting votes in that state. Then too, you have to have electors named and certified. You can vote for yourself, as has been suggested here, but have you certified someone else to be the member of the Electoral College in each of the Congressiounal districts in your state? If not, you're wasting your time. Do you have a running mate? In most states, you can't run for President unless you have a candidate runnign with you for Vice President as well. And then anyone who wants to vote for you if all of that is accomplished has to fill out the ballot properly, which isn't always so easy to do. And finally, no one will report these votes anyway, since the media don't care and the people who are appointed to do the counting generally consider such votes to be a bother.
 
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