Comments | noog: We don't need no education.

noog

We don't need no education.

Jul 26, 2003 03:00

This was posted in one of the communities to which I belong today:

"alright. so in my senior social studies class, no one taught us how to go about REGISTERING TO VOTE, so i figured you ladies can help me out..

i turn 18 as of sept 3. i need the ez pass lane to cast my vote in the november elections.. so um.. what do i do?"Jesus fucking christ. ( Read more... )

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starladear6 July 26 2003, 13:48:59 UTC

Woo! I share that person's birthdate!

*ahem* When I turned 18, I didn't register to vote right away for the same reason: I didn't know how. my ignorance cost me my first chance to vote for president too. wah. I was shy and ignorant about all things political then. (still shy, just not so ignorant now.)

theh July 26 2003, 15:59:11 UTC

I think certain people (the majority of the population) should not be allowed to vote. No matter what age they are.

But it doesn't really matter. Nothing fucking works anyway. I had to register to vote four times before I was actually registered. And then the absentee ballot system is also a complete failure. I received two ballots, my sister never even got hers, nor did my friend Anne.

shatteredsmiles July 26 2003, 21:46:21 UTC

if we were educated we would not be such easy pawns for our government and others and we might actually *gasp* bring about change! now they woulldnt want that now would they? also i must admit that someone who cant figure out how to register to vote is probably not informed enough that they should be voting anyways. but thats just my opinion.

aprilstarchild July 26 2003, 23:29:48 UTC

At one high school I went to, when you turn 18 (assuming you do so while in high school), you get a letter (delivered during your social studies class, I think) saying "congrats on your 18th birthday, here's a voter registration card." I thought that was cool. The college I go to, Portland Community College, has registration forms *everywhere*, especially before an election. Plus, isn't it a federal law that they have registration forms at DMV??? I think I've filled out that damn card twenty times 'cause I move so much.

noog July 28 2003, 02:02:06 UTC

That's really cool... what your high school did. :)

I'm not sure, really. I've only registered to vote once. I haven't moved since I turned 18. Actually, that's not true-- I go to college elsewhere, but I still consider myself a Portland resident and am registered to vote here, because I care a lot more about Portland than I do about Podunk, Illinois.

morrigirl July 27 2003, 01:18:28 UTC

I didn't want to register when I turned 18. But my brother and i happened to pass a Rock the Vote booth in Times Square one day and he made me do it :-p

noog July 28 2003, 02:08:10 UTC

Yay! Rock the Vote! MTV rulzz!!!!!

Okay, seriously... I've been to NYC twice, and both times I haven't been able to visit the places I wanted to visit, because I was there with MTV-heads who just wanted to wander around Manhattan and/or *groan* sit in front of the MTV studio all day. *whine* I never even got to go to Greenwich Village. Or see any neat Big Gay Places. Woe is meeeee!!!