Voting Thread

[rubah]

I registered to vote today! Now to find where to get the absentee ballots and I'm set.

Registered? Most states want you registered a month before the general elections, but I don't know about you foreign folk.

[Dolentrean]

I have been registered for awhile now. I am excited to vote :bigsmile:

[Aerith's Knight]

I've been registered for 2 years, voted twice and my party won both times.

But to say things have improved..

no.

[Rantz]

We don't register to vote in Sweden, we just vote. :)

[Krelian]

We don't register to vote in Sweden, we just vote. :)
Same for Germany.

[rubah]

Is it mandatory?

[Krelian]

No, but I try to vote if possible. I only missed one election so far, because... well, I didn't feel like voting that day.

[Rye]

I just registered to vote as well. I sent my absentee ballot in on Saturday morning! I'm so excited! I'm gonna be all Obama mama up ins da polls. :jess:

[Flying Mullet]

I'm registered. :)

[~*~Celes~*~]

Registered back in June, I believe. Just got a card in the mail today telling me my precinct and where to go to vote...Even though they sent me the same exact card back in June. Got my absentee info all set, just in case I'm out of country by then :)

[Cz]

I'm registered to vote in England. Voted correctly in the London mayoral, but haven't had a chance to vote in a general yet.

[o_O]

Around election time in New Zealand, the government puts the most annoying people they can find all over the cities to try to make people register to vote. There was this one dude near my work who would ask me every couple of days for a good half year if I'd registered to vote. :p

[Peegee]

I don't vote. If I'm registered it's not intentional.

[NeoTifa]

i registered in gov't class in like march or something. i voted in primaries. peoples were all like "vote hillary!!!!" and im like "hillary equals fail" and theyre like "what?" and im like "x_x"

[Roto13]

I've been registered to vote for years. :P

[Tavrobel]

I registered to vote 21 days before my State's primaries. I was 17 at the time, and therefore, I hax'd the system.

[Fonzie]

Give me one more year, and I'll bump this. :p

[Kirobaito]

I registered when I turned 18.

I will be sending in my request for an absentee ballot later this week.

[Denmark]

What KB said. Verbatim.

[nik0tine]

Does anyone have any information on voter registration and draft eligibility? I'm afraid registering to vote may also register me with the selective service system in which case I will never be voting.

[Hambone]

I'll make it right on time for the '12 election. I'll be 18 by the end of September.

[Tavrobel]

Does anyone have any information on voter registration and draft eligibility? I'm afraid registering to vote may also register me with the selective service system in which case I will never be voting.

It is completely separate, and supposed to be done independently in proximity of your 18th birthday. It's safe to say that the law requiring registration may be ignored, since no one has gotten in trouble for it since 1986 (says Wiki).

Of course, the logic for letting people vote at 18 was "if you're old enough to die for your country, you're old enough to vote."

[Momiji]

I registered today as well, but why I did, I have no idea. I don't know who I'm supporting-- so far, I like neither to be completely honest, but I dislike politicians in general. I guess I registered just to register.

[Blue Harvest]

I've been registered since I turned 18. I've only voted in the one general election we've had since then, and the party I voted for won our region's seat with a majority of something like 46%. I cba to vote in anythig else because it's not important. I'll probably vote in the next general election, if there ever is one.

[Serapy]

Voting doesn't count. I vote, the result gets +1 from me, that's like nothing. Unless they pay me to do so, then I'd be glad to oblige.

[Heath]

Registered to postal vote as soon as I turned 18. Have voted in several elections. Welsh Assembly election (2007), County Council by-election (2007) and County Council election (2008).

[Kirobaito]

I registered today as well, but why I did, I have no idea. I don't know who I'm supporting-- so far, I like neither to be completely honest, but I dislike politicians in general. I guess I registered just to register.
There are more things to vote for than just president. You'll have US Congressional Rep, US Senator (depending on the year - we have one this year, Go Rick Noriega!), State Senator, State Rep, and all kinds of potential municipal laws and city and county positions.

I know that my vote for president won't really matter, as McCain will carry Texas by 10 points, but all of the other races are important, too.