Eboni Khan

Today is the last day in many states. You can check here. Also if you are arguing on these forums all day and aren't registered yet


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Decadent

I'm not registered to vote and have no intention of registering. ZOMG.

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Sooz Pascale

I'm registered and recieved my voter information packet yesterday. Now I'm debating whether or not to apply for an absentee ballot. Sometimes my days are hectic, but I just checked the court calendar and I have no Ct. appearances or depositions or unusual driving to do that day, so I don't know.

EXCELLENT point about forum arguers needing to get registered.

Sooz

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Colette Meiji

People are entitled to their opinions whether or not they are registered.

But I registered in September.

Eboni Khan

People have died so you can vote. You don't care?

Decadent

No-one in this country died for my right to vote in this election. Trust me.

Bard Jameson

I vote, and there have been times in the past when I didn't out of disgust and conscience - not wanting to give my sanction to any standing candidate - not out of so-called apathy.

But I'd like to register my disagreement with that age old saw, "if you don't vote you can't complain". Voting is not a requirement of citizenship. If I am a citizen, subject to the country's laws, then I have every right to complain, argue, discuss, etc.

Unlike when I was young, I now believe that it is important to vote every time on anything and everything, because at least you can choose the lesser of evils. That's all we do anymore, IMO, but at least I get the chance to cast my vote for the lesser.

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Surreal

Aren't you still an Irish citizen Decadent?

I'm registered, and harassing my apathetic friends (well only the ones I know won't vote for McCain) )

Decadent

Yep. Can vote in Irish elections, sure, but not here.

Roxie Marten

Of course you have the right to complain.
For me when someone does not vote and then does not like
what is going on in Washington.

It is like going to a restaurant and not ordering off the menu.
Then complaining about what is served to you.

Complaining when you did not participate in the process is
a empty complaint for me.

Rox

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Roxie Marten

I have been a registered voter all my adult life.

Right now it feels like having a drivers license and no car to drive

Rox

Sarah Nerd

Sure am! I haven't missed a presidential election since I was able to vote. I'm one of those people who still thinks my vote counts and make sure I get heard.

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Eboni Khan

Then you can't vote unless you are going to lie and break the law. Why even bother to respond?

Roxie Marten

I am too much of a geek for my own good.

When I turned 18 there were two things you could do.

Vote and drink. I was more hyped about voting.


I still drank of course


Rox

Decadent

Because I wanted to.

Kristian

I'm registered to vote, and because Obama will most certainly carry NY like a feather in his back pocket, I'm voting Bob Barr, because his it's important to keep 3rd parties on the ballots and I can't vote for McKinney (lunatic) or the other lefty groups that get on the ballot here.

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Sarah Nerd

When I was a kid my Mom would take me into the voting booths and let me push the chads through for her. I guess she only voted on local issues because she never thought her presidential vote counted. She would always write in answers. Once she voted for Alfred E Newman, and a few times she would write her own name in. She thought it was funny that her name would appear on a list somewhere since she wrote it in. Now she doesn't vote at all. She says no matter what were fucked and she thinks it's all pre-determined who will win. Going into the booths with her will still always be a good memory to me though.

Dancien Graves

Why even bother to make the thread? You didn't say "AMERICANS ONLY" on the goddamn title did you?

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Roxie Marten

My mother worked on the election board.
She would bring home practice paper ballots to
teach me how voting works.

I still remember those huge yellow sheets and laying on the
floor with my crayons marking off my choices.


Rox

Lo Jacobs

Voting!

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Bard Jameson

Oh, that it were that easy. To extend your analogy...

It's more like going to a restaurant, then told to vote on only two dishes. If you don't vote, fine, but everybody eats what 50% +1 of the customers vote for. Allergic to wheat? Tough titty, kitty - we're having pasta. Eat or starve.

Oh, and there are no other restaurants.

My point is more about the fact that most of the choices are made for us - two candidates in the general election - right or left, hot or cold, red or blue. Never mind that both are toxic long term anyway, as they're already acceptable to those who already gots power.

A vote does not change the fundamentals. So a complaint about those fundamentals from someone who in essence said "none of the above" is not empty, since the consequences of the result fall as hard on that person as they do on anyone who pulled a lever.

L$2

Jeni Roussel

I've been registered to vote (and voted) ever since I was able to. Not voting is not an option for me, even when it feels like there's no one worth voting for.

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Quimby Rothschild

I'm registered but I sold my vote to Decadent for a 6-pack

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Cindy Claveau

I've been registered in the same precinct for 10 years, now. The polls are right on my way to/from work, so I'd be a lazy git not to stop by and pull a lever or two.

As for having the right to disagree, if that were the case, only 64% of eligible US voters went to the polls in 2004. That means, on the average, something like 36% of you shouldn't be bitching. More than that if you count the non-Americans among us.

I don't follow that logic. My Constitutional right to free speech (subject to the whims of our benign emperor, el jefe) is not abridged by my voting record, and neither are the rights of those who don't live here. After all, this is a place for opinion. The real work happens out there ----------->

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Jessica Robertson

This is a dumb question, please don't shoot me in the face for asking it.
Just a simple "Yes" or "No" is good

Do I have to register each national election? or just once?
I think I am registered to vote in my State.
At least, I have voted before at the State level.

This is the first time I have voted at the national level... as a civillian.
In the military we always filled it out as an absentee and sent it in.