Students for Gore - Exercise your right to vote!

[James]

Originally posted by 33girl:
Whether it's Gore, Bush, Nader or LaRouche (I'm sure he's running again, isn't he?), REGISTER AND GET OUT AND VOTE! OUr forefathers and foremothers didn't fight for this right so we could take it for granted.

Here's a scary statistic from US News:

In 1900, voter turnout was 73.7%.

In 2000 (so far), it was 48.9%.

Just remember - if you don't exercise your right to vote, you lose your right to complain!

I definitely agree that to not vote is to surrender complaining rights. Also, to not vote because you don't like any of the candidates is not a good reason either, its avoiding the question.

As a response to the statistics above, don't forget that the percentage of the population allowed to vote is much higher now also.

Plus, it just occurred to me that the 48.9% voter turnout we have now is the percentage of REGISTERED voters which I believe is somewhere around half the eleigible voters. I am almost positive that I am correct on this.