Your average American is far too savvy a consumer to just go and do things because it's a "civic duty" or whatever. These are people who won't even buy a 12-pack of soda unless it's on an endcap at the supermarket and is being pushed at 50 percent off, so why should they go to some gross elementary school gymnasium and vote for President, or, worse, "neighborhood council," which sounds like something out of a terrible reality show, just for the privilege of feeling good about themselves as citizens? Well, the gentle hipsters in Eagle Rock, which is a part of Los Angeles, have figured out a way to lure people to democracy: by giving away $40 worth of medical marijuana to anyone who can bring in proof of voting!
Hey, it worked for Prop 13. "Lower my own taxes? Bitchen!"
Mitt is the disease, weed the cure.