Because I'm an immigrant who can't vote. Same with my husband. And we no longer have voting rights in our home countries. And it'll be at least one more year before we can apply for citizenship.
So all we get to do is sit around and watch other people not bother to do what we'd absolutely do if we could.
ahhh. so it's not that your vote doesn't count (like a lone democrat living in a republican district might feel), it's that you don't actually have one...anywhere? wow. yeah, that plain sucks. :(
i get downright pissy at people who don't vote. it's not a right (for us to have the option of blowing it off), it's a responsibility! some people don't get that.
i wish you and your hubby the best of luck with your immigration process. i've seen that it can be arduous.
You're right, it is a responsibility. It's hardly so much to ask, especially with the availability of mail-in ballots and such.
Mind you, I think someone told me that in the US you have to go to a specified polling place, right? In Canada and Australia you can go anywhere in your area as long as you have ID. So you can go to the place closest to work, for instance. I think it gets more complicated if you go really far away because they won't have the right ballots, but I've never tried so I don't know. I just know that one year I voted on campus, and then the next election I voted near home, so it was really convenient.
But allowing that here would probably mess with the nice little system they've got going that makes sure poor/minority people get crappy voting service...
i wish you and your hubby the best of luck with your immigration process. i've seen that it can be arduous.
For us it's just long, not so arduous. We're white. It's the people with melanin who have trouble. :(
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Date: 2006-11-07 10:20 am (UTC)So someone else who doesn't want to bother, please go vote for those of us who can't.
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Date: 2006-11-07 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-07 09:38 pm (UTC)So all we get to do is sit around and watch other people not bother to do what we'd absolutely do if we could.
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Date: 2006-11-08 03:16 pm (UTC)i get downright pissy at people who don't vote. it's not a right (for us to have the option of blowing it off), it's a responsibility! some people don't get that.
i wish you and your hubby the best of luck with your immigration process. i've seen that it can be arduous.
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Date: 2006-11-08 08:16 pm (UTC)Mind you, I think someone told me that in the US you have to go to a specified polling place, right? In Canada and Australia you can go anywhere in your area as long as you have ID. So you can go to the place closest to work, for instance. I think it gets more complicated if you go really far away because they won't have the right ballots, but I've never tried so I don't know. I just know that one year I voted on campus, and then the next election I voted near home, so it was really convenient.
But allowing that here would probably mess with the nice little system they've got going that makes sure poor/minority people get crappy voting service...
i wish you and your hubby the best of luck with your immigration process. i've seen that it can be arduous.
For us it's just long, not so arduous. We're white. It's the people with melanin who have trouble. :(
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Date: 2006-11-07 02:18 pm (UTC)