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Why did you NOT vote?
2004-11-02, 8:14 PM #1
Since a lot of Americans dont vote, I'm just wondering why those of you who did not vote decided to stay home.
2004-11-02, 8:19 PM #2
holy cow, I can see why people woulnt' want to wait in line. I waited 4 hours before it was my turn to vote!
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2004-11-02, 8:25 PM #3
That's rediculous... They spend billions on advertising for the whole thing, cant they spend a few million for some more voting stations?
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2004-11-02, 8:26 PM #4
Never recieved my absentee ballot
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2004-11-02, 8:28 PM #5
^^ (in reference to Spork's post) and non-chad poll machine thingies ;)

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Oh, and underage.
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2004-11-02, 8:40 PM #6
That's really a waste and a crime, MB. Maybe it was sabatoge.
2004-11-02, 8:42 PM #7
couldn't get to my precinct
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2004-11-02, 8:55 PM #8
Heb, a lot of people in another state are suing the state because they received their ballots late. I forget which state. But they're going to accept absentee ballots for an extra week or two because of it.
2004-11-02, 9:10 PM #9
Underage.

18th birthday's in January too. So close, yet so far.
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2004-11-02, 9:32 PM #10
Quote:
Originally posted by Vash
Heb, a lot of people in another state are suing the state because they received their ballots late. I forget which state. But they're going to accept absentee ballots for an extra week or two because of it.


Ohio, I believe.
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2004-11-02, 9:37 PM #11
I did vote.
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2004-11-02, 9:48 PM #12
Received my absentee ballot later than usual. I was thinking it had to be postmarked by election day, I was wrong. That's only for absentee voters outside the country. So yeah, I'm a deadbeat this year.
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2004-11-02, 10:33 PM #13
I'm part of the wrong damn country.
2004-11-02, 10:48 PM #14
I WAS DISENFRANCHISED.

Actually Michigan has a 30 day registration thingy, and I didn't register in time to be able to vote.
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2004-11-02, 11:10 PM #15
Because neither of these guys are worth voting for and I don't want to end up simply voting for the better of two evils...
2004-11-02, 11:15 PM #16
I lived in the wrong country.
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2004-11-02, 11:17 PM #17
This was assuming you live in the US.
2004-11-02, 11:18 PM #18
I was busy watching Dawn of the Dead and washing clothes.
2004-11-02, 11:19 PM #19
Underage + not currently living in the US.
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2004-11-02, 11:29 PM #20
I did vote, because you're frickin supposed to if you can, simple as that.
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2004-11-02, 11:30 PM #21
I don't know why I bothered voting.
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2004-11-02, 11:46 PM #22
It took me about 15 minutes to go in, register and vote.
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2004-11-03, 4:56 AM #23
I did vote.


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What?
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2004-11-03, 10:24 AM #24
If you're a Democrat and you live in Texas or Kansas or somewhere, there really isn't any point in voting at all. The soutern states will always be Republican, so there isn't much point in voting democrat, because of the all-of-nothing system of the electoral college.
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2004-11-03, 11:29 AM #25
Some states are not all-or-none, but I dont know which ones other than Maine. But with that idealism, then if you live in New England or the west coast you shouldn't bother to vote if you're Republican. Which means nothing would ever change.
2004-11-03, 11:32 AM #26
Quote:
Originally posted by Mort-Hog
If you're a Democrat and you live in Texas or Kansas or somewhere, there really isn't any point in voting at all. The soutern states will always be Republican, so there isn't much point in voting democrat, because of the all-of-nothing system of the electoral college.


Exactly.
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2004-11-03, 1:40 PM #27
Quote:
Originally posted by Vash
Some states are not all-or-none, but I dont know which ones other than Maine. But with that idealism, then if you live in New England or the west coast you shouldn't bother to vote if you're Republican. Which means nothing would ever change.


Well, some states won't ever change, until something drastically radical happens.

This is the fundemental problem with the United States, and the concept of a constitution in general; it opposes change, and makes changing things much much harder. It doesn't really matter who is president, because the system will still be the same. And even if he could, he probably wouldn't want to, as the president has to be quite wealthy in order to run for president in the first place he will tend to be of a somewhat conservative nature. So the country will never experience radical change. And so people in those all-or-none states will still have no reason to go out and vote.
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2004-11-03, 2:13 PM #28
I'm an ootlanda. Ootlanda's can't vote.
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2004-11-03, 5:34 PM #29
I'm underage. For the people that didn't vote, watch the South Park election episode where Puffy Daddy tells Stan to "Vote or Die".
2004-11-03, 5:42 PM #30
undeage, but i can vote next time.
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2004-11-03, 5:50 PM #31
I picked other, now I'm specifying. I didn't vote because I am neither an American citizen, nor do I live in America, now have I ever been there.
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2004-11-04, 1:04 PM #32
cuz I'm not livin in da USA!!!!
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