Will You Vote?

I'm undecided on if I will or not, but the reason I wouldn't is because I have no roots where I currently live and have no plans to set any down. What difference does it make to me who the state representative for this area is going to be if I don't plan on being around for anything he/she ever does?

 

Someone has to live there. Get off your ass and vote.

Besides, almost no one ever plans to "put down roots" where they end up doing so.

Roots happen.

 

i will vote. i enjoy it. my wife and i were discussing the seemingly reprehensible candidates (i'm in northern virginia - the rest of virginia hopes northern virginia someday becomes its own state ) and the senate race is ugly - george allen or james webb. and i'm not thrilled with my democratic choice (jim moran) for the u.s. house. i may go independent/libertarian on some but ultimately i have to go with the reprehensible candidate i can stomach the most or at least comes down my side of the fence on issues important to me.

but i do like my choice for school board.

 

I'll vote. I haven't missed an election since I turned 18, even getting absentee ballots sent to me in college.

Also, there's something kind of patriotic about walking down to the polling place and voting. I wouldn't miss it.

 

Always.

 

BTW, 21, good thread topic.

 

I always vote. I brought my daughter with me last year when she was 6 weeks old and 3 months old to vote in the primary and general election. If there is a ballot initiative which I don't care about, I skip it. If there is a race in which I don't like any of the major candidates, I usually pick a non-nutjob thrid party.

 

I vote in every election, even municipal ones. If you don't vote, don't complain.

 

This year, I voted in the Democratic primary in my polling place in Manhattan. Granted, there was only one really constested race (State AG). But, I was really surprised that when I voted at 6:30 p.m. (with my daughter), I was only the 8th person to vote in my precinct.

 

I have always voted (for the last 40 years or so) but won't make it this year. Getting out of the house, getting in and out of a car and walking into the school with my walker is becoming more difficult. Still, I would go if I cared who won the senate race between Bob Menendez (a Hudson County crook) and Tom Kean Jr. But I don't care which of the two win, and I won't complain when the results are in. Let those who have strong feelings about those candidates vote, I'll watch.

 

Wow, I agree with Fenian on something!

I haven't missed an election in the 14 years I've been eligible to vote. I love exercising my right to vote and take great pride in encouraging non-political friends to pay attention during election season and to get out and vote, too.

 

Exactly.