Please do vote
(10/28/08 4:00am)
I was unpleasantly surprised by John Schneider's Oct. 22 column, "Please don't vote," encouraging members of the Duke community to purposely pass up their opportunity to vote in the upcoming election. I'm not contesting that the American democracy isn't a flawed system at times, but when people who can make an imperfect system better choose to disengage with it instead, the only logical result is that the system gets worse because the people who are left have no intention of improving it. And for this presidential election, the prospect of the system getting worse is something I simply cannot passively allow to happen.