First TIme Voter

DSTCHAOS · #1 02-07-2008, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Munchkin03

What are these reasons? It's been my experience that older folks--especially those of the Greatest Generation--have taken their civic responsibilities so much more seriously than Baby Boomers or Generation X-ers.

Yeah, I like labeling generations.

In my post, "older" refers to people who are 40 +

People can feel free to add to my list:

1. Feeling a disconnect between the ways "of the past" and contemporary issues/concerns. If they voted years ago, they may reminisce about who they voted for in the past and may even say that the current politicans aren't worth it.
2. A lack of access to information on the candidates and voting, particularly in certain areas and with certain socioeconomic groups.
3. Frustration with the outcome of previous elections--and typical voter apathy
4. Schedules conflict with elections and they don't have the info or the interest to do absentee ballots, etc.
5. The same impatience and intolerance for ALL politicans that I have but it's possibly magnified due to a combo of demographic factors.

honeychile · #2 02-07-2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

In my post, "older" refers to people who are 40 +

People can feel free to add to my list:

1. Feeling a disconnect between the ways "of the past" and contemporary issues/concerns. If they voted years ago, they may reminisce about who they voted for in the past and may even say that the current politicans aren't worth it.
2. A lack of access to information on the candidates and voting, particularly in certain areas and with certain socioeconomic groups.
3. Frustration with the outcome of previous elections--and typical voter apathy
4. Schedules conflict with elections and they don't have the info or the interest to do absentee ballots, etc.
5. The same impatience and intolerance for ALL politicans that I have but it's possibly magnified due to a combo of demographic factors.

I keep hearing about "I don't want to be called for jury duty. How lame is that?

DSTCHAOS · #3 02-07-2008, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

I keep hearing about "I don't want to be called for jury duty. How lame is that?

It's a lame excuse but an understandable sentiment.

Tom Earp · #4 02-09-2008, 03:49 PM

I love customers who come into the store and brag that they do not vote as they do not care.

I look them straight in the eye and tell them, "well if you do not vote then do not complain".

Even though someone on this site she knows more about the state laws I lived in (Mo.) and She lives in (Pn), I have voted every damn time which gives me the right to complain about how things are run!

Good for you HB, vote, it is a right that many lives were lost to allow you to do this!

DaemonSeid · #5 02-07-2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

In my post, "older" refers to people who are 40 +

People can feel free to add to my list:

3. Frustration with the outcome of previous elections--and typical voter apathy

That being the main one...this is why everyone more than ever is being urged to vote this election year

DSTCHAOS · #6 02-07-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

That being the main one...this is why everyone more than ever is being urged to vote this election year

I don't think that's the main one, especially for older people who have never voted.

DaemonSeid · #7 02-07-2008, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

I don't think that's the main one, especially for older people who have never voted.

It depends on who you talk to in some cases.

But you still have a lot of disenfranchised folks who still feel that the 2000 and 2004 votes didn't matter and now they are of age...or were at that time, why bother when they feel like they are being cheated?

I had a similar conversation with one of my frat brothers back in 04.

He was too young to vote back in 2000 and didn't bother in 2004 because 'he knew that Bush would find a way to cheat'

Althouhg I could understand his frustration I still had to remind him that there is nothing he could be mad about if he at least still didn't exercise his right to vote.

He is definently voting this year.(mostly because everytime he tried to get into a political debate we would remind him of that facr and shut him down...heh!)

DSTCHAOS · #8 02-07-2008, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

It depends on who you talk to in some cases.

But you still have a lot of disenfranchised folks who still feel that the 2000 and 2004 votes didn't matter and now they are of age...or were at that time, why bother when they feel like they are being cheated?

I had a similar conversation with one of my frat brothers back in 04.

He was too young to vote back in 2000 and didn't bother in 2004 because 'he knew that Bush would find a way to cheat'

Althouhg I could understand his frustration I still had to remind him that there is nothing he could be mad about if he at least still didn't exercise his right to vote.

He is definently voting this year.(mostly because everytime he tried to get into a political debate we would remind him of that facr and shut him down...heh!)

Now I see where you're going. I thought you were talking about people who had voted and were pissed because they thought their vote didn't count.

This younger woman on Baisden said that she was tempted not to vote ever again because she felt her vote didn't count in the last election because Bush was re-elected. I said outloud "what an idiot...." because votes always count unless there is some error/conspiracy at the polls. Just because a certain candidate wasn't elected doesn't mean the votes weren't counted and didn't count.

NappyBison · #9 02-07-2008, 10:20 PM

I've heard the "my vote won't count" before

As a person living in the one of the most lucrative and most ignorant countries on the face of this planet, I feel like smacking a few million folks with a history book, math book, dictionary, etc. Those people who don't end up voting are the very ones complaining about the government slighting them of this or that. How can you sit up here and complain about something when you had an opportunity to keep it from occuring in the first place

I guess you can't necessarily fault them for their ignorance, but after a certain point it's just sheer stupidity that spews from the mouths of these fools (yes fools). Unless you've been a convicted felon, are in jail, or have some other legit reason which prevents you from voting, there is no excuse for one taking it upon themselves to simply "not vote".

Velocity_14 · #10 02-08-2008, 01:53 AM

I asked my roomie (who is from Nashville, TN) did she vote and she was like "naw, I'm not in Nashville." I told her "Uuuummmmmmmm we are in the Murfreesboro which is JUST 30 minutes away and you couldn't drive your lazy a$$ home for that? You drive for everything else in you Hybrid automobile that you say hardly burns gas! People marched, suffered, and died just for BLACK (people) and WOMEN to have the right to do so!" She couldn't say nothing but just stand there and look dumb. And, I politely left her in her dumbness. She too young to be that dayum lazy...

"Bitchassness" is certainly affecting our communities...folks want to whine and complain but too lazy to participate in a simple act that can change and improve things.