OK, You Win. Let's Do It Your Way.

Every four years, there are four elections held in our BP Precincts.  It's one election every year.  Two of them are BP elections, one is a general election that does not include the election of the president, and one is a general election that does include the presidential race.

This year, the election is the big one, the general election that includes the presidential race.  Several hundred people from BP will vote.  In the other general election, the one two years ago and two years from now, fewer people will vote.  In the BP elections, about half of the number that voted in the general elections will vote.  So I'm talking to the half of our neighbors who will vote in the general election, but not in the BP election.

And let me be clear.  These are interested citizens.  They will vote.  Most of them will vote when there is no election for president.  But of those interested citizens, only half will vote for BP Commissioners, when that's all that's on the ballot.  They're telling us something.  They need reason enough to bother to come to the polls.  Just the BP Commission election all by itself is not reason enough.  That's what they've been telling us, persistently, over a long period of time.

Well, they're about to come to the polls.  In whatever passes for droves this presidential election year.  And a remarkable choice will be there to meet them.  They no longer have to miss out on BP elections, because these elections do not offer the "critical mass" necessary to entice them.  They can now tell us to move the election, to make it more convenient, and then they'll vote all the time.

Voting is what they should do.  It's what we all should do.  And what they're telling us is that if we just move the election, they will vote.

So we should all vote to move the election.  It helps our neighbors, and it helps democracy.  They win: if we want their input, we'll have to make life convenient for them.  And since I do want their input, and it's no skin off my nose to make life more convenient for them (and for myself), I'm in.

Vote Yes.