I recently learned that we have an election coming up here, and I'm interested in voting against a proposed amendment to the state constitution. In the interest of keeping this thread more practical than political (ha! we'll see how that works out...) I won't dwell on what that amendment is or why in my 37 years as a living American I have never voted. Instead, I just want to talk about the physical act of voting.
Lisarea tells me I should be able to just take my ID to a polling place and do it. So, I took to the web to try to find a polling place and a summary of the issues on the ballot. Unfortunately I wasn't able to find the information I was looking for using Google or any of a number of government web sites, but when I went to the website of my local PBS station (kera.org) to find the showtimes for
this, I found all the information I needed - including briefs of the issues, a list of polling places and even a sample ballot.
Okay, so I have an ID and the closest polling place is about 100 yards from my house, so that shouldn't be a problem. The next thing I need to know is do I have to vote on everything on the ballot, or can I just vote on one or two propositions? Because as far as I can tell I don't really give enough of a shit about the vast majority of the issues in question to spend a lot of time researching them, but I don't want to just cast random, uninformed votes if I don't have to.