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And I know that consumers are becoming more conscious, and they are going to start voting with their wallets, and they are going to change the face of business and finance from the outside, if they don't do it from the inside.
People were taking shots and photos; people were reporting violations of human rights in Egypt; people were suggesting ideas, they were actually voting on ideas, and then they were executing the ideas; people were creating videos.
There's several other notable attacks that unfortunately I don't have time to go into, but the one that I wanted to point out was a group from the University of Michigan which was able to take voting machines, the Sequoia AVC Edge DREs that were going to be used in New Jersey in the election that were left in a hallway, and put Pac-Man on it.
That our input to the system of government is voting.
A momentous thing that can happen to a culture is they can acquire a new style of arguing: trial by jury, voting, peer review, now this.
But what to do about people who are voting with a blank ballot?
When we actually looked at not just self-reported political orientation, but voting behavior, we were able to look geographically across the nation.
So if you think about this as the problem of a dysfunctional, hyper-polarized institution, well, the first step is, do what you can so that fewer hyper-partisans get elected in the first place, and when you have closed party primaries, and only the most committed Republicans and Democrats are voting, you're nominating and selecting the most extreme hyper-partisans.
Did they know who they were voting against and what the impact was?
Well, ownership gives voting rights to shareholders.
Reading the posts from 1917, you learn that Russia was the first country in the world to abolish the death penalty, or one of the first ones to grant women voting rights.
Man: I ain't voting on no gay shit.
So we decided to simplify into an up-down kind of voting binary model.
After the war, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution legally abolished slavery, while the 14th expanded citizenship and the 15th gave voting rights to formerly enslaved black men.
But our democracy is neither just a matter of voting once every couple of years.
It suddenly became very easy for us to simply compare these results with how our representatives were voting in Congress.
Right here, in my city of Rio, in spite of mandatory voting, almost 30 percent of the voting population chose to either annul their votes or stay home and pay a fine in the last mayoral elections.
And so we had cleaning ladies voting on a board meeting, which had a lot of other very important people in suits and ties.
So our legislators cannot analyze the budget that they are voting for.
But surprisingly, car prices also correlate well with crime rates in cities, or voting patterns by zip codes.
Yes! (Applause) Congress is voting in June on same-sex marriage, so these are things that for some people are very hard to hear.
There are certain states that have a long history of voting for a particular party.
Besides voting, chances are that some time in your life you'll be called upon to participate in your government, whether it is to serve on a jury, testify in court, or petition your Congress person to pass or defeat an idea for a law.
Why aren't we voting with our investment dollars, but we would vote with our lattes?
In other cases, systematic errors arise through deliberate fraud, like the presidential referendum held by Saddam Hussein in 2002, which claimed a turnout of 100% of voters with all 100% supposedly voting in favor of another seven-year term.
And she said, "I want you to be completely honest with me: have you been voting for Republicans?"
But in spite of all this, I still believe voting matters.
And the Civil Rights Movement, which sought to redeem the promise of equal citizenship that had been betrayed by Jim Crow, put voting right at the center.
From Freedom Summer to the march in Selma, that generation of activists knew that voting matters, and they knew that spectacle and the performance of power is key to actually claiming power.
What we need today is an electoral culture that is about being together together, in person, in loud and passionate ways, so that instead of being "eat your vegetables" or "do you duty," voting can feel more like "join the club" or, better yet, "join the party."
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