I rarely vote becaues I'm afraid I'll do more harm than good! I don't really know the candidates, only what the media says about them, so I'm afraid I'll vote for a real creep or against somebody who would have really been good.

But - if I know one of the candidates or know a lot of things about them not through gossip and rumors but through reliable sources, I vote.

There was this guy who used to teach my son in Karate. He ran for office and won because he sounded, to the public, to be such a wonderful person. He had like 4 advanced black belts despite the fact that he was legally blind. He supposedly helped children in numerous ways. blah blah blah. What the public didn't know was that he stole money from the children and was emotionally abusive and was actually a mean, awful person! After that I no longer trusted the media to tell us what the candidates were really like.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing or not by not voting, though.