Oh god.  Not more of this.  Did your head say that just now?  That’s how I’ve been feeling these days.

But I got an e-mail from this club I’m in, CVC, about voting and it was very helpful so I think I should share.

> This is where you go to vote <

> This is where you go to find the information on the questions asked and the candidates <

After taking a look at those two pages I can see why only 15% of the student population bothered to vote last year.

There is just too much going on and not enough care in my body to bother to read all those pages about candidates and so on.

Too many terms I don’t understand.

Too many things I never knew existed.

Too little time to care.

Why am I even bothering then?

I read in the Ubyssey  about this “referendum” that wants students to pay $5 at the beginning of the year and you can get it back when you vote.  And you can vote against (or for) it.

So really my only motivation to vote is that I want to keep my damn $5.

(I don’t even know what “referendum” really means but they seem to be rules or policies the AMS wants to change?)

Do you really know where your fees are going?  For people who miss out on voting and if this $5 thing passes I doubt most people would even realize that there is a $5 charge in our fees somewhere that we can get back through voting.  Sure, it would be these individuals’ own faults for not staying updated but seems like a cheap tactic to me.

If only 15% voted last year… that 85% multiplied by $5 is a lot of money…

I will talk about my other confusions of voting another day.

(like what does “indexing fees” mean anyway!?)

For now, sleep.