today is the day!!!!
groovN
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just some facts to make the day a bit easier:
EVERY VOTE COUNTS, so make sure you cast your vote!!
If you are in line (even if you are not physically inside the voting location, but just in the line to get in) when the polls close (it is 8pm in NJ and PA), YOU ARE STILL ALLOWED TO VOTE. Do not leave. Stay and cast your vote! The polling location MUST stay open until every last person who was in line at the closing time, votes!!!!
If you are wearing a candidate’s teeshirt, button or sticker – you may be asked to cover it up, so bring a jacket. Don’t leave, just cover it up!
It may begin raining on the east coast this evening, bring an umbrella.
If you are a first time voter, or a first time voter to your polling place, bring EITHER your voter registration card, OR a picture ID, OR a non picture ID (this could even be a paycheck or utility bill addressed to you at your registered address).
Please don’t let anyone discourage you to vote. If you are registered, and not in jail, you can vote!
Encourage everyone you know to vote. People die for this right in other countries. Please don’t let a little rain or a 30 minute wait keep you from casting your vote in this historic election.
Finally, if you don’t know where to vote, go here: http://www.vote411.org/pollfinder.php This link can also tell you if you are registered (the site is sponsored by the league of women voters and is non-biased!!!)
Thanks everyone!
EVERY VOTE COUNTS, so make sure you cast your vote!!
If you are in line (even if you are not physically inside the voting location, but just in the line to get in) when the polls close (it is 8pm in NJ and PA), YOU ARE STILL ALLOWED TO VOTE. Do not leave. Stay and cast your vote! The polling location MUST stay open until every last person who was in line at the closing time, votes!!!!
If you are wearing a candidate’s teeshirt, button or sticker – you may be asked to cover it up, so bring a jacket. Don’t leave, just cover it up!
It may begin raining on the east coast this evening, bring an umbrella.
If you are a first time voter, or a first time voter to your polling place, bring EITHER your voter registration card, OR a picture ID, OR a non picture ID (this could even be a paycheck or utility bill addressed to you at your registered address).
Please don’t let anyone discourage you to vote. If you are registered, and not in jail, you can vote!
Encourage everyone you know to vote. People die for this right in other countries. Please don’t let a little rain or a 30 minute wait keep you from casting your vote in this historic election.
Finally, if you don’t know where to vote, go here: http://www.vote411.org/pollfinder.php This link can also tell you if you are registered (the site is sponsored by the league of women voters and is non-biased!!!)
Thanks everyone!
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Voting is a RIGHT ...... *one that we are lucky enough to have..... EVERYONE PLEASE VOTE!!
What is the percentage of your population that doesnt vote? Any idea?
We get fined in Australia if we dont vote
I could google by state, but thought I'd just ask the opinions of those here.
now THAT's an idea I like!!!
Im seriously dumbfounded that its not compulsory to vote in what meant to be the world superpower.
And tonight Im gonna read up on it. Im dying to know if there are any accurate figures as to the percentages
Fair fuckin play to ya. I would too.
Thats a great way to explain it to them.
Do people not for coz they dont care, are lazy, lack of education/knowledge???
So for all the questions Im just eager to understand the logic (or maybe lack of) peoples reasoning.
I must add that given the choice to not vote, there will always be a few who take up that offer but it should be the Government that makes it compulsory shouldnt it?!?!?!
But the reasons give to me are.."I don't like either of them"
"I don't follow politics" or other bull shit along those lines. I just don't think people understand what really is at stake here.
Get out and vote!
you really think Bush won the popular vote in '04??
all the lemmings will be out in droves casting their meaningless vote for either unworthy candidate and in a year from now Ed will be writing songs about Obama and how we need to vote to get rid of him.
the election is controlled,the candidates are controlled and your mind has been controlled.
voting is now irrelevant thanks to Diebold,our TOTALLY corrupt system and our lying thieving so called "leaders".
so have fun partaking in the illusion today.
So tell us... Whos goin to win Brainiac?
I'd better get off the computer and get ready!!
it doesn't matter who wins!
the same policies will be put in place the same wall street crooks will be filling their pockets with my tax dollars the same fascist bullshit that Bush started will continue on course and the wars in the middle east will continue to escalate.(or they will be replaced by Russia and China)
It's a democratic society... make the most of having you vote count.
So few people are so lucky...
It can be easy to think that they are much the same, and in some ways they are, but there are fundamental differences in their views and attitudes. In particular, on Iraq, health care, the environment, economics and foreign policy... and thats from me in Australia! Im sure you could find more differences! Do the research... and make you vote count!
the only difference is on the surface and in their meaningless empty words they utter that get left by the roadside once in office.the are controlled and run by the same people/think tanks.
my vote doesn't count because they own the voting machines as well.
"It's not who votes that counts, it's who counts the votes," Joseph Stalin
i am very well informed when it comes to politics...well beyond most of my countrymen, so i don't need to research anything.I don't expect you to know what I'm saying.you live in another country! Fuck! most of the people who do live here don't know either!!
there's no need to come here and be negative about something that alot of American's are proud to participate in.
It's people like you that hold others back with your "nothing's ever going to change" attitude.
Obviously the world is not going to change overnight, but with attitudes like yours, it never will
Voting in Australia is mandatory? I didn't know that. I think if they tried to pull that here, there'd be a lot of unpaid fines.
I think only about half of all Americans who are eligible to vote actually do, for reasons that Crazy Breed mentioned, or just because they don't want to.
I vote because I believe it does make a difference. Yes, big business has their fingers in everything and most politicians are completely corrupt, but sitting around and whining about it isn't going to change anything.
I also vote because of how hard women fought to get the vote. My great-grandmothers couldn't vote because of their gender. I'm going to take advantage of my right to vote.
i can't wait to vote. i was up at 5:30 because i was so excited!
BUT GOD, REMEMBER WHAT WE HAVE ALL GONE THROUGH AND SUFFERED THROUGH FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS, YOU AMERICANS HAVE A HUGE SAY IN WHAT HAPPENS TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!
Please go VOTE!
Your friend in Canada!
Joe
"It's Evolution Baby"
Montreal '00; Toronto '03; Montreal '03; Kitchener '05; London '05; Hamilton '05; Toronto '05; Toronto '06 x2; Boston '06; Toronto '08 x2 (Eddie)
I don't know what's more pathetic; your pessimism or your lazyness.
Whatever.
Just go ahead and sit on the couch today...grab a bag of chips, put your hand down your jogging pants, and stroke your fucking life away.
You don't like the system but you do FUCK ALL to change it.
If your so disillusioned, why don't you do something about it.
But I guess trying it too hard.
U.S. has about a 55% vote ratio, should be up this time to 65%+. Down here in Florida every vote means something. Most states though lean much farther one way to a party, so some people don't feel the obligation to go out and vote knowing which party will win the state like when I lived in NY. That's why you see Obama & McCain mostly in the swing states. Most people take this life and voting here in the states too much for granted. Then they go out and complain about what's going on here, what bull-sh*t! Go out and Vote.
What You Giving
I suggest you step out on your Porch.
Run away my son. See it all. Oh, See the World!
"ignorance is bliss" that's why you think I'm being negative.you're not informed enough to know i speak the truth. Change will only come when enough people wake up and realize they are being played like a fucking tune.
the only thing that is pathetic around here is your clueless assumptions of who and what i am/do.
I am an activist and i do plenty to spread the truth the only problem is that the sheeple don't like the truth! they don't like being told they are wrong! they don't like being told that all they know is a lie! and they respond just like you did.
you're the one who is having his mind "stroked" and you're not even able to see it!
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." ~ Mark Twain
YES GO OUT AND VOTE...
but as sad and negative as CRAZY BREEDS attitude is...its TRUE...hello? just look at the last two elections? who won? NOT FUCKING BUSH! who was put in office? FUCKING BUSH!
Americans are a bunch of clueless lemmings that follow what the controlled media follow.
Whatever happend to WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? "oh we dont talk about that anymore cause its not on CNN." Well, we went to war over them, everyone just forgets...
Whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden? "oh, we dont talk about him anymore cause fox news hasnt mentioned him in a while"
I still beleive that everyone should go out and vote! MY VOTES BEEN CAST FOR WEEKS!
but your vote really doesnt mean anything....HASNT ANYONE HERE HEARD OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE? your vote doesnt matter...anyone go to history class in elementary school? or did we just forget that too?
whats really sad is that today, in this country we have the technology to make it so that everyones vote does count....but we never will because then our votes MIGHT actually matter.
You can all keep picking on CRAZY BREED but it makes you all seem even dumber. if this was TRULY a democratic nation BUSH wouldnt be in office, we wouldnt be in a meaningless war, we wouldnt have the highest incarceration rate on the planet...and we wouldnt be the laughing stock of the rest of the world!
we actually had it good with Clinton but we are so stupid we though it was bad...remember how we actually tried to get him impeached over having his pee pee sucked? WAKE UP AMERICA!
perhaps b/c most of us don't kniow how?
i always assumed to voted 'absentee' you actually DID have to be absent from your voting place, not just choose to do so b/c you feel like it. as far as i know, in NY, there IS no early voting, vote by mail, etc....except for the absentee ballot. so i just don't think all states offer all these options.
btw - while i DO consider it a RIGHT and a RESPONSIBILITY to vote...i really don't think compulsory voting is 'right.' part of the freedoms of being an american, is the right NOT to vote as well. if one does not want to participate in their government and representation, that is their choice to make imo. however, personally, i fully believe in voting, and i always vote!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Won't let the darkness swallow me.