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seathru@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If all you do is read the little statements booklet they send out, and then do the mail vote based on that,

… then you are no better informed than Bob, who is voting for the guy his pastor told him to. People should personally vet any candidate they are voting on. AI will make that more and more difficult moving forward.

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count_dongulus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well my approach is:

Mark off every candidate who did not bother to provide a statement

Mark off every candidate with no listed volunteering experience in the little section for it

Mark off every candidate whose statement claims they can do things their office is not able to actually do

Mark off every candidate with a platform that doesn’t claim to be aiming for any kind of change or improvement in particular. (I don’t support chair warmers.)

Mark off every candidate whose email is a personal one listed as @yahoo.com or something else similarly unprofessional

Mark off any candidate supporting the party that supported a coup attempt on 2021

After this quick pass, which only takes a couple of minutes, I’m typically only left with two or three offices with more than one remaining choice to compare. I then read their platform and pick the candidate with the platform goal that seems most relevant to my or my community’s interest.
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