How many of you actually vote.

[honeychile]

I have voted in every election since I was 18, and I plan to be able to say that for the rest of my life. Why? Because I can!

My parents were very active in politics, and I worked at the polls since I was old enough to lisp, "Please vote for my Daddy." So actually, I've never missed an election since I was 4!

The year that I was an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention, I was the youngest delegate in the country.

Now I'm a registered Republican, and have worked in the White House, and served jury duty. I'll always be glad that I've had the experiences I did, but there's something to be said to enjoying the autumn & the spring without a heartfelt campaign ...!

[kappaloo]

Yep I vote.

I actually worked at the last election. I was the person who registers people to vote day of. I don't know about the US, but here in Canada, you just need proof of address and signature. Further to that, you don't even need proof. We like it, but you can swear and oath saying you're eligible to vote (blah blah blah, Queen, blah blah blah) and you'll be allowed. To deny someone the right to vote is unconstitutional...

I vote in all elections except municiple, since I've never had a municiple election in a city I was staying more than 4/8 months in since I turned 18.

I'd like to vote for the Green Party leader. He's running in the same constitutancy as Ernie Eves....

[CC1GC]

Originally posted by kappaloo
Yep I vote.

I actually worked at the last election. I was the person who registers people to vote day of. I don't know about the US, but here in Canada, you just need proof of address and signature. Further to that, you don't even need proof. We like it, but you can swear and oath saying you're eligible to vote (blah blah blah, Queen, blah blah blah) and you'll be allowed. To deny someone the right to vote is unconstitutional...

I vote in all elections except municiple, since I've never had a municiple election in a city I was staying more than 4/8 months in since I turned 18.

I'd like to vote for the Green Party leader. He's running in the same constitutancy as Ernie Eves....

so you're saying i should vote green?...even tho their platform makes me puke almost as much as hearing PC, Liberal and NDP...i think i'd rather destroy my ballot with graffiti.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by CC1GC
so you're saying i should vote green?...even tho their platform makes me puke almost as much as hearing PC, Liberal and NDP...i think i'd rather destroy my ballot with graffiti.

No SHE didn't say YOU should vote green. SHE SAID SHE'D like to vote Green, and that he is running in the same riding as Ernie Eves.


The Green party is running 102 Candidates in 103 ridings. I think that is pretty damn good. I think it's about time the media started giving them some more recognition. By the same token, they need to do some better campaigning. I didn't know who my candidate was until I decided to look it up on the web.

[etahannah]

i vote in all presidental elections. local elections i dont always get to because i either dont have enough time or i am not informed on any of the issues. i only vote when i know all the aspects of ths canadate's platforms and what the issues are all about!!

***dances a voting dance***

I *had* been voting in all of the elections, but I don't know how to register in my new town.

I don't get any official mail at my new address (ie. utilities and such, my fiance has them all in his name), which they required when I registered in college

[sigtau305]

I voted every year except for one when the Shaker Heights School District needed a levy to pass to continue their expenses.

[KappaTarzan]

i vote i vote i vote! i am very proud to vote.

i don't always make it for primary elections because i go to school a little far from home, but i always make the trip for the real elections. i really believe "every vote counts".. didnt' george w prove that to us??

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Ginger
I *had* been voting in all of the elections, but I don't know how to register in my new town.

I don't get any official mail at my new address (ie. utilities and such, my fiance has them all in his name), which they required when I registered in college

Ginger, although your vote will just be cancelling mine out, if you PM me I can help you figure out how to register.

I've voted in just about every election possible since my eighteenth, except for when I forgot to request an absentee ballot for school board. I voted in Platteville last year so I could vote for the candidate I had been campaigning for. Now I think I'll go back to voting in Waukesha County because somebody needs to vote Democrat there.

-471 times my daddy has voted for Mickey Mouse because he didn't like the Republican candidate and nobody else ever runs

[pinkyphimu]

i registered in pa when i was 18 and voted by absentee ballot in most elections while in college. i even got to work at the polls my first election. it was a primary, so someone had to switch the thingy if you were a democrat or a republican. i got to do that! my mom was the judge of elections in my town for years (until she started working for the federal government and had to resign). when i moved to mass, i didn't register. i went to the dmv to get a new license and i had waited sooooo long, i didn't want to spend any more time registering to vote. last year, i read over the propositions being proposed in the state...and with the governer's race, i knew i had to register. i would have felt guilty if mitt romney won and i didn't vote...lol. at least i can say that i put in my two cents!

[polarpi]

I've voted in every election I could. Absentee voting is the greatest thing when you're in school, or else I had a friend who was registered to vote in the area she was going to school (still here in the state). I'm actually going to miss the CA recall election because I'm flying to Indiana that day, and I just mailed in my request for an absentee ballot so I can vote for the new governor of CA

I vote! The only one I missed was this past presidential (Bush v. Gore) race because I moved and b/c I put my mailing address at school which was a PO Box on the voting registration application. They rejected it because it didn't have my permanent address. Now that I have my voter registration card, I vote whenever there's an election.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin

-471 times my daddy has voted for Mickey Mouse because he didn't like the Republican candidate and nobody else ever runs

When I worked the polls, the funniest write-in I ever saw was "Anybody but that bum!"

Little known voting fact: If you write in a candidate's name who already appears on the ballot, that vote is cancelled out! Save your write-ins for organized write-ins or protests such as the above!

[rainbowbrightCS]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
I vote. Although I live in fear everyday that I will be called for jury duty (where do you think they get the jury lists from? the voter registration lists, uh huh, uh huh).

They get it from your tax forms and what not.... My sister was pciked for jury duty before she was registered.
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Chris

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by rainbowbrightCS
They get it from your tax forms and what not.... My sister was pciked for jury duty before she was registered.
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Chris

CutiePie lives in a different country than we do...