[Sailor Steve]

It does bring up questions, such as how many people knew about it? How do people react when they see it in the paper? "Lieutenant Governeror? Attorney General? Are they even important?" Maybe people don't care about those positions. Maybe people don't believe there is difference enough to care. Sometimes on a ballot I'll see "Should Judge Thomas be retained in his position?" I don't know who he is, which means I haven't heard anything bad about him, which means he hasn't done anything that anyone has raised a stink about, so I'll vote "Yes". Sometimes I think about voting "No" as a joke, but I don't joke when someone's actual life is on the line.

When people have said "If you don't vote, you can't complain" I'll come back with "If there's no box marked 'None of the above' I sure can!" In big elections I get annoyed when none of the major candidates are anything like myself, so I'll find a minor candidate who is closer to my own thinking. Then people say I wasted my vote, or hurt their candidate.

I'm thinking most people don't care because while complaining is nice what goes on in government is so far outside their own experience that it's not really real to them. On the other hand if someone complains loudly enough I tend to ask what they've done to change it. I don't care enough to run for office myself, but I do care enough to vote. Most of the time.