I just read a comment on this feed about what most Hoosiers lack when it’s time to vote-A simple informed explanation of what each candidate stands for (LEFT TO RIGHT AND IN BETWEEN) when running for office.
“You had to look up____online to read about Democrat candidates.”
👆This 👆is THE issue that bothers me most about moving back to Indiana: 📌The NON-disclosure of ANY & ALL ELECTION CANDIDATES by the State Government & how all Hoosier voters have been duped with these red flags:
🚩 There is ZERO legitimate FREE literature exposing Hoosiers to [ALL] dem, rep, ind., libertarian, candidates running for any election, for ANY position.
🚩We are left to: 1) Read the candidate’s signs/watch their ads on tv, 🚩2) Look up a candidate’s information online on often, biased, untrustworthy, unverified, & paid-for websites by the candidate’s campaign staff.
📌Researching on our own time should come secondary to what the state should provide us first.
🚩3) Succumb to hearing about candidates from every party, but from the SAME PEOPLE WE ALWAYS HEAR DISCUSSING POLITICIANS & CANDIDATES: friends, family, & neighbors. Face it-everyone’s family & inner circle is going to be biased, non-partisan informed.
I lived in 2 other states for 22 years: 📌BOTH state governments funded its constituents (all current registered voters) w/sample ballots containing brief, nonpartisan/non-biased descriptions of EACH candidate, proposed prop, other legislative proposals etc.
…And 📌the state mailed them to us ALL via the USPS SNAIL MAIL style 📫!!!
After moving here I realized why this 🚩low-voting-turnout🚩state is not showing up to the polls:
📌1) No one’s truly informed of what they’re voting for, & what they’re voting AGAINST.
📌2) This is a fundamental right for registered voters. It’s actually mandatory for democracy-“It’s a free country” is heard by all, but this “freedom” is directly related to an American’s freedom of option, choice, & right to the knowledge in order to exercise them-or use their right to protest peacefully.
🚩🚩🚩When your government withholds legislative materials (aka education) from its citizens, its citizens aren’t in control of their elected government officials anymore. Those elected may become authoritarian, which is an inch away from autocracy rule-This is why the 1st & 2nd amendments exist-To help the citizens overthrow their government if their needs are increasingly being vetoed & the American people lose constitutional rights. 🚩🚩🚩(aren’t Reps. the party of small government🤦🏼♀️?=🚩🚩🚩🚩)
📌Anyone reading this from out of state knows it’s wrong needing to double down on researching info on a candidate (after waiting for literature in the mail). This should be, & probably is already funded by the state, btw.
📌This year I went to the library to ask about this issue. Librarian told me they carry free election specific inserts from the local newspapers ONLY. That the state never issues such info. She also said many people from anywhere elsewhere asked her about the same thing. I took 3 and it turns out my local paper in Mooresville lists both democrat and republican candidates👏…
🚩BUT they only include descriptions of each REPUBLICAN candidate.
🚩An already super-short list of democrat hopefuls took up HALF a page in an 8 page tutorial of interviews with republicans, descriptions, bios, & large advertisements of…you guessed it-🤔only republicans. No wonder the state continues to vote red or not vote at all.
❓DOES ANYONE KNOW: 1) THE BEST WAY TO CONTACT THE STATE GOVNMT About This Issue And/To…
2) ALERT🚨 ALL HOOSIERS ABOUT WHAT’S MISSING HERE? AND TO HOPEFULLY INSERT RIGHTFUL, DEMOCRATIC CHANGE❓
⬆️the positive change here would create informed voters and INCREASE Indiana’s voter turnout stats. 🗳️