View Full Version : I Just Registered To Vote For the First Time Ever
Leticia
10-08-2008, 08:25 PM
I am 25 and have never voted.
I finally decided I would vote this year.
I feel a little bit more useful.
torker
10-08-2008, 08:29 PM
nice
bigfatfuck
10-08-2008, 08:29 PM
Congratulations! A real McCainiac, huh?
PapaBear
10-08-2008, 08:32 PM
Twice. When I was 17, and again in 2005. (http://ronfez.net/forums/showthread.php?t=46109)
KnoxHarrington
10-08-2008, 08:46 PM
I registered as soon as I turned 18.
I even got an absentee ballot so that I could help elect Bill Clinton president in 1992.
drusilla
10-08-2008, 10:24 PM
I registered as soon as I turned 18.
I even got an absentee ballot so that I could help elect Bill Clinton president in 1992.
^^^ my first time voting was an absentee ballot in '96
we just registered to vote up here through rockthevote.com. got our new locations in the mail the other day. i know i'm still in ny, but i far enough north to worry.
weekapaugjz
10-09-2008, 12:02 AM
Good for you for registering. Now here are your choices:
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/6520/giantdouchevsturdsandwich7om.jpg
Slumbag
10-09-2008, 02:24 AM
Good for you for registering. Now here are your choices:
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/6520/giantdouchevsturdsandwich7om.jpg
Dude. So awesome.
I never have.
Farmer Dave
10-09-2008, 03:13 AM
Congratulations, now you can pretend to that it actually counts along with the rest of us.
red_red_red
10-09-2008, 03:25 AM
Have fun @ jury duty.
GreatAmericanZero
10-09-2008, 04:42 AM
i think i registered right when i turned 18 (cuz i'm a good citizen!) but i didn't vote til 2004
Misteriosa
10-09-2008, 04:47 AM
i registered to vote when i turned 18 and have voted every year... even for the primaries
Hottub
10-09-2008, 05:05 AM
Primaries, town council, school board. I never miss an election.
And Red is right aboot jury duty. But I enjoy that.
Fezticle98
10-09-2008, 05:16 AM
'98, when I was 18.
I've voted in every general election, but only one primary, I think.
Don't know if I will bother voting this time. I'm registered in DC, so it doesn't really matter.
Dougie Brootal
10-09-2008, 05:21 AM
i registered last week. didnt feel the need to start a thread about it though!:tongue:
Jujubees2
10-09-2008, 05:55 AM
I got screwed because I didn't turn 18 until three weeks after the 1980 presidential election so I couldn't cast my vote for Jimmy Carter. I'm sure he would have won if I could have voted!
Marc with a c
10-09-2008, 05:55 AM
racist
Leticia
10-09-2008, 06:12 AM
Good for you for registering. Now here are your choices:
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/6520/giantdouchevsturdsandwich7om.jpg
:lol::lol::lol:
Congratulations, now you can pretend to that it actually counts along with the rest of us.
Yea, sorta the reason I hadn't before.
Have fun @ jury duty.
Actually I've been getting jury duty summons waaaaaay before I registered. I don't think registering to vote is the only way you get signed up.
Furtherman
10-09-2008, 06:16 AM
Actually I've been getting jury duty summons waaaaaay before I registered. I don't think registering to vote is the only way you get signed up.
I've been near the jury. Facing them.
I got screwed because I didn't turn 18 until three weeks after the 1980 presidential election so I couldn't cast my vote for Jimmy Carter. I'm sure he would have won if I could have voted!
good thing
Thebazile78
10-09-2008, 06:24 AM
While your vote may not "count" in a presidential election the way it might in, say, a committee or student council vote, voting in your local government elections - school district, town, county, congressional district and state - really do have a direct impact on your quality of life.
Everyone can name their governor or the President, but can everyone name their Senators and Representatives? (Mine have been changing A LOT lately ... I gotta stay up on that!!!)
That said, I've voted in every Presidential and Gubernatorial election since I was 18 and have started to vote in county, town and school board elections. I even voted in the primary this year, but think it may have been a mistake because declaring a party meant I opened myself up to receiving a LOT of mailings from my local party office. Why don't they spend the mailer money on effecting real change????
In fact, I just dropped my change-of-address registration in the mail today. Which means I'm getting in just under the wire for the registration deadline. (21 days prior to a general election.)
Bob Impact
10-09-2008, 06:36 AM
I registered at 18. I vote regularly for town things, but i sat out the last presidential election and i plan on sitting on this one as well.
midwestjeff
10-09-2008, 06:38 AM
Sucker.
Aggie
10-09-2008, 06:40 AM
Good for you!
As soon as I could register I did and voted absentee in the '96 presidential race. Still have only voted in the big ones every 4 years. This is my first year voting in a primary and participating in a caucus.
Congrats Leticia! It's always great when people get involved in the process.
Dougie Brootal
10-09-2008, 07:49 AM
Congrats Leticia! It's always great when people get involved in the ruse.
fixed.:laugh:
fixed.:laugh:
You mean like fake threesomes?
Dougie Brootal
10-09-2008, 07:50 AM
You mean like fake threesomes?
words hurt.:flush:
Contra
10-09-2008, 10:02 AM
This is the first election I'm voting in. I missed the one when I was 18 because I really didn't care, then I didn't vote in the last one because I didn't want either, but this time I'm in it to win it!
Dougie Brootal
10-09-2008, 10:11 AM
how long does it take after you register to get whatever card they mail to you?
Heather 8
10-09-2008, 02:55 PM
Have fun @ jury duty.
In my 14 years as a registered voter, I've not once been called for jury duty. Yay for slipping through the cracks! :clap:
Heather 8
10-09-2008, 02:57 PM
how long does it take after you register to get whatever card they mail to you?
Usually a couple weeks. When I applied for my name change, they sent me 3 cards, each with a different city/township listed as my residence.
No, the "vote early, vote often" doesn't apply to me; they only have me listed once in the big book o' voters.
King Hippos Bandaid
10-09-2008, 03:03 PM
18
was at an age where I wanted everything that was owed to me
except joining the military , im a big fat jew chicken
torker
10-09-2008, 03:19 PM
http://prbipartisan.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/28262-voteordie.jpg
Tall_James
10-09-2008, 03:29 PM
Voting? What are you - gay?
furie
10-09-2008, 04:58 PM
i registered and voted when i was 18
DonInNC
10-09-2008, 05:56 PM
2 wins, 3 losses here.
RoseBlood
10-09-2008, 08:36 PM
Like most in this thread I registered when I turned 18 too.
Congratulations Leticia!!! :smile:
But are you now a part of the problem or the solution? :unsure:
PapaBear
10-09-2008, 08:48 PM
Like most in this thread I registered when I turned 18 too.
I was glad they let me register at 17. As long as you were going to be 18 by Election day, you could. I turned 18 a little over a week before Election day.
Ritalin
10-09-2008, 09:14 PM
Have fun @ jury duty.
The jury pool is pulled from the driver's license pool in New York.
Fallon
10-09-2008, 09:16 PM
Have fun @ jury duty.
Jury duty is fun.
Sent a teenager to prison for life a little while back.
He deserved it. :banning:
Meataball23
10-22-2008, 06:43 PM
I missed 2000 by a few months and didnt care enough about mid-term elections so I didnt get involved until 04
drjoek
10-22-2008, 06:44 PM
Just sent my son his absentee ballot application to college his first time voting.
ahhdurr
10-22-2008, 08:57 PM
In my 14 years as a registered voter, I've not once been called for jury duty. Yay for slipping through the cracks! :clap:
I called called to Philly last year but was dismissed.
Is there anything about the defendant that would cause you to already have formed an opinion? (something like that)
Yes... he looks like a scumbag. If I saw him in the street I'd get ready.
sr71blackbird
10-23-2008, 01:51 AM
I have not voted in 14 years. How do I go about getting it set up so that I can?
Thebazile78
10-24-2008, 05:35 AM
I have not voted in 14 years. How do I go about getting it set up so that I can?
If you're no longer registered, I think that NY's registration deadline was a couple weeks ago, so you missed it and can't register by mail.
You may be able to vote using a "provisional ballot" at your polling place. Contact your county's board of elections to find out what your options are; you should be able to find the information you need online.
Freitag
10-24-2008, 05:38 AM
Jury duty is fun.
Sent a teenager to prison for life a little while back.
He deserved it. :banning:
The ultimate banning. I bet Mikeyboy is jealous.
angrymissy
10-24-2008, 06:43 AM
I have not voted in 14 years. How do I go about getting it set up so that I can?
In NY you don't have to have the voter card if you show ID and are listed on the voter rolls.
You can check if you're still registered here:
https://voterlookup.elections.state.ny.us/votersearch.aspx
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