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On the other hand I guess he is right that a bunch of uninformed idiots do select the people who run our government. No make that a bunch of uniformed idiots who want nothing but government handout select the people who run our government.

Of course my answer to the problems isn't educating the people, but getting rid of government. Hey, what did you expect from an anarchist!!!! Of course my question is how is a person supposed to be informed and select the best candidate for the office?

It's not mandatory for candidates running for office to make up an honest, correct resume and hand it out.

And even when they do make up a resume it is full of lies, oops, I mean full of stuff on how they would have wanted to do the job they claim they did.

And sadly it's isn't illegal for them to make up lies in an attempt to con us into voting for them.

So if we don't have a resume what should we used to get educated about these people???

Their campaign signs all have "sound bites" of 10 words or less on how they will solve our problems. Which many times are lies, or just wishful thinking.

Or their campaign signs say they won't f*ck up thinks like the last guy did. Yea, sure!!!! Why is it the last politician always f*cked things up, but the current politician isn't f*cking stuff up????

I was thrilled when I became old enough to vote and pick my government rulers.

Of course I quickly became disillusioned when I discovered it was almost impossible to select the "best" candidate to vote for.

As I said before the candidates don't give us resumes.

Nor can you get a candidates position on their views from their campaign signs.

And of course candidates will tailor their lies to the different groups they talk to. When a candidate is talking to members of the Sierra Club he will swear up and down he supports the environment. But when the same candidate talks before a bunch of conservative businessmen he will swear up and down that he could care less about the environment and that lowering taxes are more important to him. So you really can't believe what you hear from a single talk or speech giving by a candidate.

Currently I am a Libertarian but when I first registered to vote I was a Democrat. I made the silly assumption to that when I didn't know which candidate to vote for I would vote for a Democrat.

The good news is I quickly figured out that was a mistake.

For a while I called the candidates for important offices and asked them two questions.

1. What's your position on the "drug war"

2. What's you position on "abortion".

I soon discovered that many candidates would refuse to answer my questions.

They would say the questions are irrelevant and have nothing to do with the office and then refuse to answer them.

I wouldn't bother telling them that yes, the questions are relevant, because if you tell me you want to micro-manage my life by passing silly laws against drugs or abortion I think you would make a lousy elected official and I don't want to vote for you.

Even for an educated person I found that for many offices it was impossible for me to select the best candidate.

I don't know jacksh*t about "dog catching" and even if I had the resumes of the two best candidate in the world running for "dog catcher" I wouldn't know which one to pick. Same goes for other offices like "state mine inspector" or "state food inspector".

I guess I could figure out the requirements, but I don't want to waste months of my time figuring out the ins and outs of dog catching or mine inspecting.

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Citizens have duty to be informed before voting

John Cadby 8:12 p.m. MST September 8, 2014

Sandra Day O'Connor, a highly respected retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, says in a letter to the editor that it is "essential that all citizens vote" ("Strength of our democracy relies on individuals turning out to vote," Opinions, Sunday).

I would agree if she said "informed" citizens should vote.

Simply to have more voters turn out is not "essential to our democracy," as too many are uninformed and base their votes on attack ads and emotional rhetoric in the campaigns.

Many voters are driven to vote for the candidate who promises more government handouts, but do not pay any income tax to help pay for them.

Only those voters who learn the character and experience of the candidates should decide who is elected, not a mass of apathetic and uninformed voters.

John Cadby
Surprise, Arizona