Voters just proved themselves dumber that I ever imagined

...and I always thought they were pretty dumb!

California’s Proposition 91 was qualified for this election in 2006, but shortly thereafter another measure was enacted which rendered Prop 91 obsolete. There was no way to get it off the ballot, so the original proponents published the following as the argument IN FAVOR of this proposition in the voter’s guide.

“VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 91. IT'S NO LONGER NEEDED.

As the official proponents of this measure, we are encouraging you to VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 91….”

And so on, explaining why it’s obsolete but stuck on the ballot and should not be supported.

See http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/argu_rebut/argu_rebutt91.html

No argument against it was published, since presumably none was needed. There was no advertising on either side, and the major newspapers and other publications who make recommendations recommended voting against prop 91, since that’s the only sensible thing to do.

And what happened? 42% voted in favor of prop 91!!!! What a bunch of pathetic morons! Ok, 58% voted no, but that should have been 100%. What a bunch of retarded, uninformed, random-voting losers!! Do you seriously want these people, who obviously have not even bothered to look at the voter’s guide that was mailed to them, to run your government? This explain so much about why California is in such a mess – it’s because so many important issues are decided by dumbass voters who throw darts at their ballot. Seriously, unless people are willing to spend some time studying each issue they should keep their lazy asses home and NOT VOTE.

Another example: Los Angeles’ Proposition S was a trick – it authorizes a tax on cell phones, but used deceptive wording to sell itself as a tax reduction. It passed by a wide margin. I suspect that most people who voted for it thought they were voting to decrease taxes, not raise them. Suckers!!

I think it should be harder to vote. I don’t know how, but somehow we should discourage people from making uninformed decisions that affect everyone.