I come from a place that for many, many months and years after the 2000 election, people made jokes on tv about how we can't count. People from SNL to the Jon Steward Show made jokes. I come from....Florida. And I am proud of it. Florida is an awesome place but some people don't think so anymore. I have heard people my age talk about how they aren't going to vote. They say there is no reason to. I ask them why and they always bring up the standard answer for not voting "It wouldn't make a differents anyway". Coming from a place where many people (mostly minorities) were turned away from the voting polls. And even after the election, people found voting ballots in dumpsters and trash cans (all of that is Illegal!), I know all about one person making a difference. In our capital city, Tallahassee, more than 200 people were turned away at one polling site in the 2004 election. Its a terrible thing when the everyday person cannot practice the right they have because other people don't think they will vote for them. Its a more terrible when you are given that right to vote and you just turn it down. So, this is coming from a person who knows a thing or two, one vote MAKES a difference! Get out and vote!
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I totally agree with your post. As for my small city in Mississippi, my fellow seniors and myself plan on voting. I haven't heard many people against the concept except for those few who claim to care nothing about politics. Well, I have a very close friend who says the same thing, but even he is registered to vote. He believes that even if he does not care much about politics in the first place, he will vote to prevent people he does not want in office from getting there.
I agree. I live in a veryyyy small town in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan. I was circulating a petition last year at school and was shocked that only four people over 18 were registered to vote. I brought in papers for them to register and only a handful did that. I do not see how anyone could not use their freedom to vote. I am so excited to vote for my first time, and I wish everyone felt that way.
I'm not old enough to vote yet but I will be sure to vote when I am old enough. I dislike when people say they aren't voting because those end up being the same people who complain about the president not doing what he should. I feel as though if you feel no need to vote then you have no real reason to complain since you didn't try to vote and make a difference. I wish I were able to vote next year during elections next year but I won't be 18 until `09.
Young people always seem to get excited about odd ball candidates like Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, and lately it seems to be Ron Paul.
They get all excited and they are really enthusiastic about campaigning. It often looks like the youth vote might actually make a difference. But then they never seem to turn out in large numbers to actually cast their vote.
I'm just as glad. They would dilute the power of my vote and I would rather wait until they mature a little more and start paying taxes. That usually cures the thinking with the heart syndrome and they start thinking with their brain instead.
Damn kids who vote for canidates that speak to them. It must be much easier when canidates talk to your ideas and beliefs...little tougher when you get talked about or down to. Sorry if you want your vote to matter more but I want your vote to matter less. It is time for the majority of people to start taking a majority of the action.
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