Jerry Summers
The early voting period is now in process in local and state politics with both partisan and non-partisan elections taking place in the City of Chattanooga and Hamilton County.
(The following broad description of the two options is intended to be non-political. There are plenty of paid and volunteer opinions writers in all local, state and national forms of the media that saturate the political arenas to cover, distort, and sometimes just lie in support for or against a particular aspiring candidate, incumbent office holder or political parties, or independents.)
Here goes:
1. Partisan Politics is merely evolving around an affiliation to connect with a political party. (There are two major and many minor ones.)
Usually a partisan voter means voting along party lines at election time although recent developments in information available to potential voters and relaxation of limits on campaign contributions have often muddied the political waters.
(The decline in the influence and number of newspapers has also significantly had an impact on elections.)
2. Nonpartisan Politics, simply refers to elections without strong affiliations to any specific political parties. In Hamilton County we have examples of both systems.
The benefits and draw backs of each system can readily be ascertained by a quick trip to a computer by typing in the term, “Partisan Politics versus Nonpartisan Politics,” and an overwhelming amount of pro and con historical fact or fiction data will be immediately available.
No reminder is necessary for probably the message expressed 100,000,000 times that many other men, women, gays, etc. have given their lives in “Harms Way” way to protect the privilege to vote that we all (me too) take for granted in America! But still exists today!
(The recommendation of an often described “cynical and sarcastic lawyer” to exercise your privilege to vote doesn’t carry much weight, but at least it has been made!)
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