[MD] growth and sustainability

[Krimel]

Marsha
Nope.  In Ct, and most states, there is an official State write-in 
list.  If a voter writes-in someone not on the list, it is ignored.

[Krimel]
I bow to your superior experience on this. It has never occurred to me to
take the serious matter of voting frivolously by casting a write-in vote. I
was unaware that the option was not available.

[Marsha]
But you are correct about taking the responsibility of citizenship 
seriously.  For example, I called my Senators and Representative to 
complain about Treasury Secretary Paulson blacking out the Bailout 
Contract for Bank of New York.  At least they know it hasn't gone unnoticed.

[Krimel]
I do not have the high level sense of civic duty that you have but I find
these "principled" arguments to avoid civic responsibility to be beneath
contempt. To hear the fools advocating this, taking the moral high ground is
out right repulsive.