Comments on: Cast ballot…aw forget it. http://www.alexdorival.com/rr/2005/11/09/cast-ballotaw-forget-it/ The site for social rights and wrongs Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:51:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rants & Raves » Blog Archive » Vote 2008… http://www.alexdorival.com/rr/2005/11/09/cast-ballotaw-forget-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1703 Rants & Raves » Blog Archive » Vote 2008… Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:16:30 +0000 /?p=34#comment-1703 [...] name was in the voting book!!!!! You don’t know how exiting that [...] [...] name was in the voting book!!!!! You don’t know how exiting that [...]

]]> By: dank http://www.alexdorival.com/rr/2005/11/09/cast-ballotaw-forget-it/comment-page-1/#comment-60 dank Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:24:32 +0000 /?p=34#comment-60 So far as I can recall, this is the first time I didn't even attempt to vote. I failed to vote in the primary election in New Orleans shortly after I moved there, because the city didn't process my registration fast enough, or it never got turned in, or something or other. I tried though, and I did vote in the regular election. But now, now I don't even know where I would vote. The Louisiana elections have been postponed, and who knows what will happen--with all the displaced voters, it might be as democratic just to leave everybody in office for a while than to have elections knowing full well so many voters won't even know they are happening, never mind be able to vote, even absentee. I'm not a resident of MA (or maybe I am?), but at any rate, I know almost nothing about MA politics anymore and wouldn't really feel justified in voting--plus, registering to vote wasn't on the top of my mind way back when. I might technically still be a legal resident of NY, since you're I think allowed to register to vote in your place of schooling without changing your permanent residence. I'm not sure that makes sense, but I think it is the law. But, again, figuring all that out and getting an absentee ballot was not high on my priorities. I really just didn't even try. I am a bad American. So far as I can recall, this is the first time I didn’t even attempt to vote. I failed to vote in the primary election in New Orleans shortly after I moved there, because the city didn’t process my registration fast enough, or it never got turned in, or something or other. I tried though, and I did vote in the regular election.

But now, now I don’t even know where I would vote. The Louisiana elections have been postponed, and who knows what will happen–with all the displaced voters, it might be as democratic just to leave everybody in office for a while than to have elections knowing full well so many voters won’t even know they are happening, never mind be able to vote, even absentee.

I’m not a resident of MA (or maybe I am?), but at any rate, I know almost nothing about MA politics anymore and wouldn’t really feel justified in voting–plus, registering to vote wasn’t on the top of my mind way back when.

I might technically still be a legal resident of NY, since you’re I think allowed to register to vote in your place of schooling without changing your permanent residence. I’m not sure that makes sense, but I think it is the law. But, again, figuring all that out and getting an absentee ballot was not high on my priorities.

I really just didn’t even try.

I am a bad American.

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