Just registered to vote :)

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-08 05:40pm

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.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-07-08 06:13pm

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.

Congratulations, and welcome to a whole new world of responsibility!

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-08 06:20pm

Remember vote Quimby

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-08 07:01pm

I'm in Florida, Montcalm.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-08 07:05pm

kojikun wrote:I'm in Florida, Montcalm.

Crap and i thought you lived in the US.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-08 07:07pm

Damn, that reminds me, I have to do that too...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-08 07:09pm

Montcalm wrote:Crap and i thought you lived in the US.

LOL

I don't even know who Quimby is. I thought he was some Canadian doof.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-08 07:11pm

Montcalm wrote:
kojikun wrote:I'm in Florida, Montcalm.
Crap and i thought you lived in the US.

Imagine registering for Palm Beach County, aka the Old Person shithole that fucked up the entire presidential election in 2000...

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-08 07:12pm

kojikun wrote:
Montcalm wrote:Crap and i thought you lived in the US.
LOL I don't even know who Quimby is. I thought he was some Canadian doof.

I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.

Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-07-08 07:12pm

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!

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-08 07:13pm

Tsyroc wrote:
kojikun wrote:
Montcalm wrote:Crap and i thought you lived in the US.
LOL I don't even know who Quimby is. I thought he was some Canadian doof.

I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.

Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.

For guessing right you win a gigantic cookie.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-08 07:19pm

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!

It's not quite that fucked. By registering your party you can vote in all of that party's primary elections.

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.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-07-08 07:21pm

Montcalm wrote: I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.

Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.

For guessing right you win a gigantic cookie.

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Shouldn't that be a big giant donut?

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-07-08 07:24pm

Tsyroc wrote:
Montcalm wrote: I thought he was referring to the Mayor of Springfield on the Simpsons.

Anyway, look forward to being on jury duty soon.
For guessing right you win a gigantic cookie.

Shouldn't that be a big giant donut?

[/quote]

OK then pink donut it is.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-07-08 09:22pm

Good for you.

Remember to actually read the ballot of push the button all the way. Screw it up and you might actually get Pat Bunchanan next time.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-08 09:24pm

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.

That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2003-07-08 09:52pm

Stormbringer wrote:Good for you.

Remember to actually read the ballot of push the button all the way. Screw it up and you might actually get Pat Bunchanan next time.

I saw that in action...

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-07-08 10:50pm

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?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-08 11:03pm

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.

DRATS! MY PLAN HAS BEEN REVEALED!!!

Oh well. Just try to enjoy the meager amount of power you have now, okay?

oh you betcha

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-07-08 11:31pm

kojikun wrote:
Andrew J. wrote: DRATS! MY PLAN HAS BEEN REVEALED!!!

You're sane enough to make plans?

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-09 12:47am

Andrew J. wrote:You're sane enough to make plans?

Only a fool plans world domination without a plan.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-09 12:50am

That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

It's a two-party system! But fine! Throw your vote away!

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-09 12:54am

HemlockGrey wrote:It's a two-party system! But fine! Throw your vote away!

Now hemlock, you know not to goad people..

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-07-09 01:04am

HemlockGrey wrote:
It's a two-party system! But fine! Throw your vote away!

Get it right fool! Its "Go ahead throw your vote away"

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-07-09 02:15am

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!

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.

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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