Thinking globally doesn’t lead to voting locally

November 8, 2006 - 1:17 AM by Sarah

American immigrant David Bogner on why he decided not to cast an absentee ballot in this year’s mid-term elections in “the Old Country”:

I’ve dealt with the issue of expat election ethics in the past so I won’t rehash it in excruciating detail here. But the long and short of it is that while I can (mostly) justify voting in a presidential election because of the potential impact on the part of the world where I now live… the mid-term elections are not likely to have any substantive impact on Israel.

Let’s face it, the candidates from both major parties have been jumping through hoops to prove their pro-Israel bona fides, and to vote solely based on local issues in the state where I’m still registered (Connecticut) when I won’t really be affected by the results seems, well… just wrong. I mean, what are they gonna do… ding my trust fund with a new tax??? [kidding, I'm dirt poor just like all of you!]

It may seem to many that I crapped out on my civic duty… but I truly feel that I don’t have a dog in this particular fight. Zahava and I will just have to wait another two years before we once again refuse to tell each other who we voted for.

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