Just registered to vote :)
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Just registered to vote :)
I just registered to vote in Broward County, Florida. I'll be 18 next year, so I'm allowed to preregister because I'm 17.
I registered as nonparty.
I registered as nonparty.
Re: Just registered to vote :)
Congratulations, and welcome to a whole new world of responsibility!kojikun wrote:I just registered to vote in Broward County, Florida. I'll be 18 next year, so I'm allowed to preregister because I'm 17.
I registered as nonparty.
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kojikun wrote:LOL I don't even know who Quimby is. I thought he was some Canadian doof.Montcalm wrote:Crap and i thought you lived in the US.
I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.
Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.
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For guessing right you win a gigantic cookie.Tsyroc wrote:kojikun wrote:LOL I don't even know who Quimby is. I thought he was some Canadian doof.Montcalm wrote:Crap and i thought you lived in the US.
I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.
Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.
It's not quite that fucked. By registering your party you can vote in all of that party's primary elections.weemadando wrote:What the hell? You people have to register your party over there? I thought that the whole point of the electoral process via "secret ballot" was to keep it fucking SECRET!
What does suck about that is that in most states you can't vote in a primary unless you belong to a party. So that means while you still get to vote you don't get any say in who the final canidates are.
There are a few states that have made all primaries open with the restriciton being that you can only vote in one primary but there's complaints there because each party accuses the other of sending ringers to it's primary to undermind what would be the real party's actual choice.
That was what happened when McCain beat Bush in some states that had open primaries. The thing is I bet McCain would have beaten Gore outright without all the closeness and crap that happened with Bush. What were the republicans who didn't like McCain going to do, vote for Gore, vote for Nader? I don't think so. They would have had to bite the bullet and taken a more sensible middle of the road style Republican, which is what Bush claimed to be until he had to fight it out with McCain. Then he had to start kissing that religious right ass.
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For guessing right you win a gigantic cookie. [/quote]Montcalm wrote: I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.
Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.
Shouldn't that be a big giant donut?
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That seems perfectly reasonable to me.Tsyroc wrote:
What does suck about that is that in most states you can't vote in a primary unless you belong to a party. So that means while you still get to vote you don't get any say in who the final canidates are.
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I'm surprised that nobody has jokingly implied that your registering to vote precludes the downfall of the U.S. I'd expect that sort of joke to be mandatory whenever someone announces that they've just registered.
Oh well. Just try to enjoy the meager amount of power you have now, okay?
Oh well. Just try to enjoy the meager amount of power you have now, okay?
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DRATS! MY PLAN HAS BEEN REVEALED!!!Andrew J. wrote:I'm surprised that nobody has jokingly implied that your registering to vote precludes the downfall of the U.S. I'd expect that sort of joke to be mandatory whenever someone announces that they've just registered.
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It's a two-party system! But fine! Throw your vote away!That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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Get it right fool! Its "Go ahead throw your vote away"HemlockGrey wrote:
It's a two-party system! But fine! Throw your vote away!
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Registering to a particular party allows part of your income tax to be diverted to that party's fundraising coffers, and also, as mentioned, lets you vote in the primaries if they are not open (which is the case in most southern states, a legacy of reconstruction). This can all be avoided by registering as "nonparty" or "independent" of course--the former used when there's an "independent party" in the state, a few states may have it.weemadando wrote:What the hell? You people have to register your party over there? I thought that the whole point of the electoral process via "secret ballot" was to keep it fucking SECRET!
So, yes, your party affiliation is known--if you register to a particular party I suspect you'd get mailings and the like from them--but in the U.S. that doesn't stop you from voting for whomever you like (except, again, in the primaries in some states, but those aren't open elections anyway)--it's just a statement of affiliation. A registered Democrat can easily vote for a Republican candidate and nobody would find out; the actual voting procedure is still secret.
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