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Re: VOTE!

It's a good thing I like the rain, as I'll stand in it to vote.

Which brings up another point. Unless there's a tornado or lightning strikes your building, or barring some other personal conflict or catastrophe, there is no excuse to not vote if you're registered. My grandparents, back in the day, had to walk through 3 feet of snow uphill both ways so they could vote. That was a feat because my Oma was only 5 feet tall!
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I already voted. Miracle of absentee ballots and all that.
Same here. Enabling lazy college students to get out and vote without actually "getting out" to do it is a great thing
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CNN is looking into why my wife and I have not received our absentee ballots yet. It will be hard to vote in person from London.

Wetzel
CNN is also looking into why all the students who were legally registered to vote during a drive in Sept. were informed yesterday by the Board of Elections that they are not eligible to vote until next year, starting Nov. 5, 2008.
This is in Easton PA.
My 18 year old and hundreds of other students are furious.
I'm having a deja vu.
The same thing happened to me many many years ago in Syracuse NY, while I was in college.
It went quickly to the courts.
I won. I voted.
And last month I voted by absentee ballot sent to me at home and mailed the day before I left on this adventure.
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I'll definitely be voting, although I'll be driving ~220 miles round trip to do it! (leave it to me to run out of time for submitting the absentee ballot application).
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CNN is also looking into why all the students who were legally registered to vote during a drive in Sept. were informed yesterday by the Board of Elections that they are not eligible to vote until next year, starting Nov. 5, 2008.
This is in Easton PA.
My 18 year old and hundreds of other students are furious.
I'm having a deja vu.
The same thing happened to me many many years ago in Syracuse NY, while I was in college.
It went quickly to the courts.
I won.
This is what I am worried about, after hearing about all the disenfranchisement of young voters I am fearing that I will be told I cannot
vote. Can someone explain what a Provisional Ballot is, I have heard them mentioned a couple times and am curious. If it makes a difference I am voting in Michigan.

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I'll definitely be voting, although I'll be driving ~220 miles round trip to do it! (leave it to me to run out of time for submitting the absentee ballot application).
Wow, that shows dedication. You deserve a cookie for that


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Re: VOTE!

I early voted last week, about a 45 minute wait. Voting was quick, I did my research before hand. We had a scantron type ballot.

Getting registered to vote was not an easy task for me. The state of Florida registered me in the wrong county, and never told me. Because they did this, they also decided to suspend my voting privileges because of the fact that I was registered to vote in a county I have never lived in. I had to re-register twice in order for them to correct the situation. I got my voters card maybe two weeks ago.
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CNN is looking into why my wife and I have not received our absentee ballots yet. It will be hard to vote in person from London.

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Read today about a couple that flew to NYC from India to vote because they didn't get their ballots. Talk about civic duty...

My problem: I've lived in the US for the past 10 years, had a green card for the past 5, and my parents still can't vote (I couldn't either if I was 18), but they're taxed. Taxation without representation, anyone?
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Thank You, that was very helpful, it is good to know there is a system in place to help.
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Considering all of the people who fought and died to peserve our way of life and the right to vote the least you can do is vote!
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Re: VOTE!

Tomorrow I'm driving an hour to my hometown in Connecticut to vote. There's just something that feels a lot more concrete about registering to vote in person at town hall and voting in an actual booth at the local school. (Although I will miss the old mechanical voting machines this year...)

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My problem: I've lived in the US for the past 10 years, had a green card for the past 5, and my parents still can't vote (I couldn't either if I was 18), but they're taxed. Taxation without representation, anyone?
Two words: dual citizenship.

http://www.uscis.gov/naturalization
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You all are so amazing. As long as our young people are engaged and informed, our country will have a great future! My children are all political junkies (like their mom) and it is our non-robot family activity. I was honored to attend one (won't say which in the interest of non-partisanship) of the national party conventions as a member of the delegation from Arkansas. There were several college students in attendance. If you are interested, I would recommend that you look into the delegate selection process for the candidate of your choice in 4 years. It was an amazing experience to be at the convention. Of course, I talked about FIRST to every politician I could get to stand still and listen!
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Two words: dual citizenship.

http://www.uscis.gov/naturalization
We're applying for it...I just think it's a little wrong that you have to live in the US for 10+ years, paying taxes that you may not agree with, before you can vote and do anything about it. The nation was founded upon that principle...I would think we'd try to avoid being so hypocritical and give the right to vote to immigrants when the feds say they can live here permanently.

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Getting registered to vote was not an easy task for me.
I'm sorry to hear that - We hear too many horror stories about disenfranchisement.

Fortunately, registering in NH was remarkably easy - much easier than in NY (for me at least). I went to City Hall during lunch, handed them a gas bill and a copy of my lease, and was out in 10 minutes.

Lets see how the actual voting goes - I'll be headed that way in an hour or so.
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Re: VOTE!

I voted this morning, and was in and out in twelve minutes. Voter turnout in this small town seems to be the same every year.

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