<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of the New Yorker, with thanks to Andy Borowitz, at:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/Country-on-Wrong-Track">http://tinyurl.com/Country-on-Wrong-Track</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: ny-irvin-heading, 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 2.8rem; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/country-wrong-track-say-people-vote" title="Country on Wrong Track, Say People Who Did Not Vote" itemprop="name headline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: inherit;">Country on Wrong Track, Say People Who Did Not Vote</a></h2><p word_count="37" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:0755328D-9B37-45B6-9B72-9440F8E7D8F6" alt="image1.jpeg" id="0755328D-9B37-45B6-9B72-9440F8E7D8F6"></p><p word_count="37" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">NEW YORK —The United States of America is on the wrong track and no one is taking action to fix it, says a broad majority of registered voters who did not vote last Tuesday.</span></p><p word_count="35" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to a new survey, anger, frustration, and a pervasive view that the nation is moving in a fatal direction dominated the mood of those who were doing something other than voting on Election Day.</span></p><p word_count="23" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Exit polls involving election non-participants took place as they left malls, nail salons, gyms, and other locations where no voting occurred on Tuesday.</span></p><p word_count="41" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The system is broken,” said Carol Foyler, thirty-one, a democracy abstainer from Akron, Ohio. “We need to come up with some way that ordinary citizens can make their voices heard and have some impact on who is running things in Washington.”</span></p><p word_count="20" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The economy, jobs, and terrorism topped the list of worries that are preying on the minds of the non-voting electorate.</span></p><p word_count="37" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I find it difficult to sleep at night worrying about the kind of country we are leaving to our children and our children’s children,” said Mark Gardziak, forty-seven, who spent Election Day shopping for a phone.</span></p><p word_count="32" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While pessimism about the future dominated the comments of the sixty-three per cent of American voters who elected not to exercise their democratic rights on Tuesday, some expressed a glimmer of hope.</span></p><p word_count="31" style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The one way things could get better is if we all get together and throw out the crooked politicians,” offered Tess Shardin, thirty-eight, who said she was unlikely to vote in 2016</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>