OK, that’s not true. Voting is easy. Informed voting is hard. And I can’t say that I really live up to the informed part as well as I should. In California, we’re voting on various initiatives which determine how billions of dollars should be spent, and it all boils down to yes or no answers. Spending billions of dollars (or even millions!) just shouldn’t be that easy… and even after something passes (I’m guessing some of these will), there will be a lot of money and time spent (what %? not sure I want to know) on exactly how that money is spent. In a slightly better world, that’s what the people we ‘hire’ to do these jobs — our elected officials — would do, and would do without passing the buck on making the unpopular decisions to spend money back to the voters. No one wants their name on something that costs voters money. This probably explains the willingness of both parties to take sides on an issue which really doesn’t cost money either way: same-sex marriage. Oh well.