Majority doesnt want Obama re-elected

[Rich_Olszewski]

So by your logic, you could just vote for something like your local dog catcher, leave everything else blank for every other office being decided that year, and claim that you were still technically following the Catechism’s exhortation to vote?

No. Restricting one’s vote to local offices, dogcatcher according to you, school board in other people’s eyes wouldn’t be following the Catechism’s exhortation.

But, one might feel that one couldn’t vote for either candidate for a state legislative office or for a U.S Representative, for whatever reason, and one need not vote there and would still follow the Catechism. I believe it would have to do with how many positions one is skipping over. Your example of voting for only one position and none others was a good one. But, not voting for either candidate for State Senator and not voting for the U.S. President, but voting for all other contested positions would still be in the spirit of what the Catechism calls for.