A lot of the issues that are discussed and voted on are things that any person of sound mind can understand if they take the time to sit down and do a bit of re

A lot of the issues that are discussed and voted on are things that any person of sound mind can understand if they take the time to sit down and do a bit of research. I think a lot of local laws are intentionally written in a language design to obfuscate the intention of said law. Add this to the fact that some jurisdictions have multiple laws up for vote at a given election which makes it hard to take the time to research. One time, I had to vote on a law that would update policy to give $X to survivors of police officers killed in action. I had no idea this was going to be on the ballot before hand. I have a relative who is a cop, so part of me wanted to vote yes right away, but another part of me though about it for a second. Wait, it says update, what if survivors already get >$X? Is this money going to come from cutting teachers' budgets? Are they going to raise taxes for this? I agree with you, I think it is our civic duty to make informed decisions about how our society should move forward, however, I think politicians are doing their part to make this as difficult as possible though.