Well, excuse me for my placing a post!

Can you for one say that what you posted is a fact? Do You Know that All Members of GC are Voters?

If, You Will Look at most Voting % there is a heck of a lot less Voters who are registered who actually vote.

I Really did not realize, that this had to do with just G C Voters:o

Just stating The Facts Mame.

Snap Your Snap Judgement, Checkmate!

Oh Boy are We having fun now?????

"Good Night Gracie, Where ever you are!"

Re: Voter Registration as a requirement
 

It's not a requirement, but it is a Interesting Idea.

Minor hijack: Meanwhile there was a controversy at IU last year when people in several GLOs all requested mail-in ballots...requests collected by local Republican volunteers:

County probes student ballot requests

Republicans defend ballots

Parties clash over student ballots

It's not like registering to vote is a huge process.

Here in NC, when you get your driver's license, the DMV worker asks you if you would like to register to vote. You don't have to fill out any forms b/c you just gave them all that info for your DL...all you have to say is what party you want to be affiliated with.

If an extra 30 seconds of your (the collective you) time is too much effort to put into something, my God you are lazy.

We don't require girls to be registered to vote.

I registered in the mail since I'm 800+ miles away from home and going back to register wasn't an easy thing to do.

I'll also be voting by absentee ballot later this year too. Easy stuff.

I was just saying that it could be a turn off for foreign students (or under 18s...but he could always wait until he's 18 to join) who might be interested in being in a member.

Vote Libertarian!

Okay, now that's out of my system, I have a very hard time believing that APhiA does not make exceptions for people who are not eligible to vote.

On a related note, any notable womens' suffragists in GLO's? I bet they would all want their sisters to vote.

If they are truly interested, they will find a way.

Yup....as I said before, a foreign student would have to find out more info from the appropriate officials. I know that we do have international Brothers. Heck, Norman Manley (founder of the People Party of Jamaica) was an Alpha.

Like I said, I hope people visit our website, because it's kind of obvious why we require it.

Carrie Chapman Catt was a Pi Phi, I believe.
HBO's movie "Iron Jawed Angels" failed to include her arrow tho.

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(edited to get the name correct)

You have a chapter at the University of Toronto. Canadians are pretty much automatically registered to vote as soon as they turn 18 (i.e. I don't remember actually filling in a form to register. I just get my voter's card in the mail a couple of weeks before an election, and off I go). What happens there?

Well, Taualumna, we can look at the issue three ways.

Firstly, if Canadians are "registered" when they turn 18, then clearly that's not a concern for Canadian Brothers, is it? Do you think my fraternity would not understand that voter registration might be different in a different country?

Secondly, most people who want to be Alphas KNOW they want to be Alphas for a while. They don't just show up the first week of school, attend and interest meeting, and GET PICKED. We don't pick people we don't know. IF Canadian Brothers DO have to show proof of registration when they apply, then they had just better get a photocopy of their card made BEFORE they surrender it to vote.

Finally, I already said above: That chapter is relatively new, and I don't know any of them. If I run into any, I'll be sure to get the OFFICIAL answer.

(tangent - it's done using income taxes (that little box you can tick), and other lists that have your age on it (eg renters info. Some people still go through the loops and have to register directly when an election is called)

Ahhhh...thanks, Kappaloo.

As my sister Shima-Mizu stated, voter registration is not a condition of pledging or initiating into KKG.

Do I think it should be a requirement? No, not for KKG. Kappas have long had a legacy of promoting political awareness. Last semester when I was doing research for my thesis at the University of Wisconsin, I found pictures in the archives of members of Kappa's Eta Chapter taking place in sufferage rallies. This and similar events occurred throughout the nation. I do believe that as responsible citizens, Kappas-- as part of our Tradition of Leadership-- should encourage political involvement, whether that is in the form of sponsoring debates, holding voter registration drives, or shuttling college students to and from their local polling place. However, political involvement was never one of the founding purposes of Kappa. The preamble to our constitution, written by our Founders in early 1870, does not discuss political involvement:Nor does our mission statement, adopted in 1980, explicitly discuss politics:Because our stated purpose does not directly mention political involvement and because ultimately the decision to participate in the democratic process is a personal one, I do not feel that Kappa is failing in its purpose by not requiring voter registration of its members.

When you consider the founding purposes of the NPHC organizations, however, the question takes on a different look. I pulled these off of the organizational websites (all emphasis is mine):So when you look at the stated missions of the NPHC organizations, it makes quite a lot of sense that they should require that their members be registered to vote in their country of citizenship. How else are they going to achieve their goals?