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My voter registration certificate came in the mail today. It's official: I get to wake up early on November 5th and haul my ass over to the polling location to vote. I'm also pleasantly surprised that the location is the Methodist church that's just a couple blocks away from me (so I can walk there instead of fighting for a spot in the Lord's parking lot).
I'm so excited that I get to vote, but I'm also a little bit ashamed that it's taken me five years to actually register.
Also surprising is that it took two weeks for me to get my certificate after registering. Not bad considering the college has had my financial paperwork for five months and still hasn't finished processing it.
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5 years.... man, you missed some good voting....
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Well, the way Siggy has described his life, and his Sims Alter-Egos life, voting maybe very exciting....
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And i don't even need to haul my butt over to the voting place. I'm on permanent absentee ballot placement status. Anyone in California can be asked to be placed on this status and they'll always send the stuff over to you so you can make up your mind and send the stuff back before the voting day. Of course, if California voters decide on the new touch-screen voting machines, the whole idea of absentee ballot may be dropped or at least heavily modified.
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I've been registered to vote since I was a few months over 18. But that's only because I got my driver's license then, and they said they could register me at the same time really quickly. That was over three years ago and I haven't voted yet.
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I can have sex, get married, join the armed forces and sell scrap metal (though not all at the same time). I can't vote. Wierd, eh?
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I've been registered to vote since a few months after I turned 18, when registration papers were conveniently provided during my move into college.
However, I then neglected to obtain an absentee ballot in time, and so I missed the Election of 2000. (I was at school five hours away -- no possibility of returning home.)
Not that my vote would have mattered, since I don't live in Florida...
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