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Originally posted by Munchkin03
More wisdom from my (red)neck of the woods:
Elections supervisor Ann Ward Bodenstein in Florida's Santa Rosa County said she would never recruit in a high school. She relies on the region's ample stock of military retirees.
"If you have a child trying to tell someone who fought in the Vietnam War what to do, that doesn't go over very well," Bodenstein said. "Really, they have no business being there if they're not registered voters."
[I don't necessarily disagree with this premise. But it's not limited to Vietnam vets. I try to tell my Dad, a WWII vet what to do. That doesn't go over well either!]
1. Who says that the high schoolers aren't registered voters? I registered the day I turned 18--and I was still in high school. What about kids who turn 18 earlier in the year? I knew plenty of kids who voted in primaries because they had early birthdays.
[I agree with this one]
2. What if the veteran doesn't have a clue about what he's doing? Especially in the case of these computerized touch screens and registration records on computer. I personally would rather have a young person who knew what they were doing than a middle-aged person who didn't.
[There are folks of all ages who don't know what they're doing. I'm middle aged and I certainly have experience dealing with young people who don't know what THEY are doing. Plenty of that going on in every age range]
3. If the veteran doesn't know what they're doing, and it "doesn't go over too well" when the younger person tries to show them what's up...there's a problem.
This is why I ran like hell, people. 
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[Sorry you don't like West Florida. We natives call it "L.A" - that's lower Alabama!]