How many of you will actually go and vote this year?

[warrior queen]

Just wondering - given all the political comments and the divisions, how many who are happily trashing/discussing the various parties will make the effort to go and vote?
I understand voting is not compulsory in the US, so I'm a little curious

 

[RoryN]

I don't think voting makes a difference, whether it's a two-party or two-million-party system. All politicians are subject to being phonies - it comes with the job.

If the vote isn't going to represent what the vote is meant to represent, what's the point?

That being said, I'm voting for Obama just to piss off people like the right-fringe members on the GB. Putting out a message that racism is frowned upon in America is worth a trip to the ballot box, even if nothing else is.

 

[bronzeage]

I haven't missed an election since I was 18. Some people get the point and some don't.

 

[warrior queen]

I haven't missed an election since I was 18. Some people get the point and some don't.

I've missed one election, and I copped a fine for that - $150, if I remember.
But then, voting is compulsory in both State and Federal elections here.

 

[run_silent]

I voted in the primaries and will be there in Nov.

I've always felt if you don't vote you have no right to bitch.

 

[warrior queen]

I voted in the primaries and will be there in Nov.

I've always felt if you don't vote you have no right to bitch.

I don't know how your system works.... what are the primaries?
Here, we have a single election on the day that sometimes determines the new Prime Minister and majority party (dependent on preferences from minor parties, that means that the one who the majority voted for may not necessarily win.)

 

[blobfish]

I don't know how your system works.... what are the primaries?
Here, we have a single election on the day that sometimes determines the new Prime Minister and majority party (dependent on preferences from minor parties, that means that the one who the majority voted for may not necessarily win.)

We have primaries to pick the representative of the various parties who will run for president on said party's ticket. The many states vary in the way they run their primaries.

 

[bronzeage]

I've missed one election, and I copped a fine for that - $150, if I remember.
But then, voting is compulsory in both State and Federal elections here.

Part of the right to vote is the right to do whatever one wants on election day. I have a friend who grew up in Cuba. When he received his citizenship, he did not register to vote. He said after a lifetime of compulsory attendance at political rallies, the right to not participate was a precious freedom.

 

[Lancecastor]

I will not be voting in this Presidential erection...Obama's a shoe-in anyway.

 

[Comshaw]

I haven't missed an election since I was 18. Some people get the point and some don't.

Absolutely. I've never missed voting in a general election since I turned 18. My oldman and I used to have some rather spirited discussions on voting. He never did, then would bitch about what the politicians were doing. It finally got to the point I told him to vote or shut the fuck up. He didn't take kindly to that, but he quit bitching about politics when I was around. I still feel the same way. Do your part or don't bitch.



Comshaw

 

[warrior queen]

We have primaries to pick the representative of the various parties who will run for president on said party's ticket. The many states vary in the way they run their primaries.

Here, the party elects their leader, who then becomes Prime Minister if they win the election.

 

[blobfish]

Here, the party elects their leader, who then becomes Prime Minister if they win the election.

That's pretty much the same as the U.S.

 

[RoryN]

"If you don't vote, you have no right to complain."

(It's becoming the reason people vote, period.)

 

[Lancecastor]

That's pretty much the same as the U.S.

No, it's quite different.

In Australia, their "president" (prime minister) is the same as the majority house leader in the USA...as if the majority house leader also become president.

In the USA, the House and the Executive are separate branches with separate elections...in Australia it's one election for both.

 

[blobfish]

No, it's quite different.

In Australia, their "president" (prime minister) is the same as the majority house leader in the USA...as if the majority house leader also become president.

In the USA, the House and the Executive are separate branches with separate elections...in Australia it's one election for both.

I don't know what the Australian system is; I was referring to her statement that the parties choose who will represent them in the general election.

 

[Lancecastor]

I don't know what the Australian system is

Exactly.

 

[Adre]

Non-voter=useless citizen

 

[Image]

I haven't missed an election since I was 18. Some people get the point and some don't.

I haven't participated since I was 18. I know you wont agree, but to me it's pointless. That doesn't mean I don't get the point...

I voted in the primaries and will be there in Nov.

I've always felt if you don't vote you have no right to bitch.

I don't vote but I don't bitch either...

Laughing is so much more fun than bitching. I go with the flow, and so far what goes on in Washington has never affected my quality of life and soul.

 

[blobfish]

Non-voter=useless citizen

Perhaps, but useless citizens should not vote.

 

[Image]

Non-voter=useless citizen

Useless Citizen= Head up the ass life waster

 

[bronzeage]

Useless Citizen= Head up the ass life waster

You need to check your math.

 

[warrior queen]

You need to check your math.

And possibly anatomy

 

[Adre]

Perhaps, but useless citizens should not vote.

Chicken or egg, eh?

 

[eyer]

It's always a hoot reading those who claim some type of surreal patriotism in voting for any candidate who demands the unconstitutional power to both assassinate and detain American citizens indefinitely with no 5th Amendment guaranteed due process whatsoever...

...pontificating on how other Americans, who adamantly refuse to vote for such treasonous unconstitutionality, have no grounds whatsoever to complain about the very unconstitutionality the voters themselves continually enable.

Bozo hacks on both partisan sides cite the duty of voting for "the lesser of two evils"...

...while remaining psuedo-ignorant of the fact they are the ones enabling evil itself to continue in Office (but, they claim, not as much as the other side).

In reality, it's the bozos who vote these "lessers" into Office who then have no logical right to complain about the evil they, themselves, intentionally enabled.

The Revolutionary core of American political free speech is represented stoutly in the ballot, and a citizen's political stance is voiced both in casting their vote and withholding it...

...but it's far from any surprise to once more witness so many statist bozos on one of the digital world's most free speech sites proclaim any citizen is in any way less American for freely practicing one of the very most inherent of all man's rights.

Like the disrespectful putz who tells his own father to "shut the fuck up"...

...all of you statists will turn into wormfood without ever coming close to the absolute need of control your natural insecurity spent its entire lifetime so pitifully seeking.

LIVE FREE
or
DIE​

 

[Adre]

Useless Citizen= Head up the ass life waster

Did you mean that level of dumb?