So I have spent the last 12 hours arguing with some whack job over the definition of low informed voter in addition to fables of election law both nationally and on a state level. I am going to make my definition of low informed voter because I thing mine is more comprehensive and accurate than most.
"Low Informed Voter" = a single issues voter. The pundits group low informed as low income or depending on the pundit minority voters and thus they say that they vote for their freebies that the government gives out to them. Fine if a low informed voter only votes to get something then pro-choice, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gun voters are also low informed voters. If a single issue blind your whole vote the. You are low informed. The difference being that these voters, in the eyes of the pundits, are white and educated. So they are "single issue" voters which is smart talk for low informed voter.
A union member who votes for someone who raids his pension fund only because that person will support conceal carry is a low informed voter. The same with a pro-choice voter who will vote for someone who will turn around and cut funds to education or the department of corrections or will raise their taxes.
I am lumping the extremes of all of these together. Not all pro-gun, pro-choice or pro-anything voters a like that but enough are to make you wonder. We already have abysmal voter turnout in this country and the 30% of eligible voters who are actually turning out have a significant number of my defined "low informed voters."
We need more information and more motivation to get people involved.
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