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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 09:52 AM
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Poll question: Have you ever missed voting in an election?
Edited on Thu Aug-28-03 10:04 AM by BurtWorm
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 09:53 AM
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1. Nope. Never missed a single one.
I plan on maintaining that record, thank you.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 09:56 AM
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2. I have sinned against you...
..yeah, I've missed elections in the past, but never again.

That reminds me: early voting starts today for the election on constitutional amendments. :think:
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 09:57 AM
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3. Yes, but it was an accident...
When I moved to Virginia last year, I wasn't a resident long enough to vote in the Congressional elections. I was PISSED. But there was nothing I could do about it.

Cat
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:10 AM
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10. me too
When I moved to Berlin I missed both: state Parliament and local Parliament elections.

The results had lasted only one year then - so I got to vote pretty soon after the missed one. (The re-elected Government got ousted because of it's entanglement with a bancrupt Bank).
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jmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:01 AM
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4. I missed a primary. It was an "accident"
I had just moved to a new district and had mailed in the forms to switch my voter registration but when I tried to vote they said they had no record of me :grr:.
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DFLforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:02 AM
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5. Yes, one municipal election in 1975
I was sick in bed with bronchitis and forgot all about it.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:03 AM
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6. I Missed One
It was an off-year election. Senate, Congress, state offices, that kind of thing. I was in Europe and it didn't dawn on me until after i left that i was going to be gone on Election Day.

Should have gotten absentee forms a few weeks before, but that never occurred to me.
The Professor
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thom1102 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:08 AM
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7. I had a similar experience last year...
I was in florida and I had a mental disconnect about being away on election day and failed to get my absentee ballot before the deadline.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:20 AM
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13. Yeah. What're Ya Gonna Do?
Sometimes i think the trip thoughts push out the day to day stuff as we anticipate leaving home. I know my brain locked in my case, anyway.

Problem was, that wasn't the first time i'd been out of the country on election day. I had remembered absentee forms in the past. Just forgot that time. Ooops!
The Professor
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LoneStarLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:08 AM
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8. Missed A Local Election On Principle
Because there was not a single office being contested by a moderate or liberal. All incumbents were Republicans and their only challengers were wingnuts who were even more savagely conservative and intolerant.

Lose-lose situation.
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:08 AM
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9. I missed a governor's election in 1982
My 18th birthday was October 27, the election a week later. I didn't know that I could register to vote before my birthday, so I didn't get registered in time. I wanted to vote. I also was away at college and didn't want to register there, but in my hometown. I got it all taken care of before there was another election and I haven't missed one since.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:13 AM
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11. I, too, have sinned, brothers and sisters.
And my story is probably the most pathetic. It was 1996. That's right, a presidential election year. My wife and one-year-old were home sick. And it was pouring. The standard, classic Democratic excuse, according to a political science teacher I once had: If it rains, the Republican gains. I figured Clinton had a lock, and there were no other urgent elections. But I have regretted that blotch on an otherwise perfect record. I've voted in three states, in off-years, special elections, school board elections in May. I voted on September 11, 2001, when it didn't count. But I am a sinner, brothers and sisters.
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 12:27 PM
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26. Don't worry...
Clinton won. We carried through.
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markbark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:17 AM
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12. Every one since '81 (Hey, that rhymes <grin>)
even when it was a pain (absentee voting when stationed in Germany)



--MAB
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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:25 AM
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14. Once
The only election I've missed was because I forgot to request an absentee ballot in time. It was a special election with only a local school levy on it and because I was away at college I never heard about it until the last minute. It still ticks me off that my voting record isn't perfect.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:32 AM
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15. I'm very proud of my perfect voting record
My first vote was cast for then-Governor Jimmy Carter in the Democratic Presidential primary in California. That was in March of 1976, just over a month after my 18th birthday.

I've never missed a vote.
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:42 AM
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16. I can't vote (n/t)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:05 AM
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19. Do I dare ask why?
Edited on Thu Aug-28-03 11:10 AM by BurtWorm
Art thou a felon, or an alien?

PS: Or are you under age?
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greenwow Donating Member (729 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:48 AM
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17. Of course
I work for a living, so there's been several elections I couldn't make it to the polls. They're only open the 12 hours. It's not like I'm going to quit my job just so I can vote. Voting is important, but eating is more important.
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DFLforever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:30 PM
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28. You should be able to vote via absentee ballot if that's your situation
You might want to check it out prior to the next election.
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SiouxJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:57 AM
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18. One but it wasn't my fault
it was a local election and I was new to this town. I never received my sample ballot so I didn't know the election date. Just kept waiting for it and then I found out the election was over. I should have been more on the ball I guess but since I didn't really know any of the candidates or issues (being new) I guess it wasn't top priority to me :shrug: . Anyway, then I started wondering WHY I didn't get my ballot and I quickly donned my :tinfoilhat: because this IS, after all, Wingnutville.
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rabid_nerd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:41 AM
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20. Ummm My choice is not there...
Missed 2000 because my registration was mishandled in Broward County Florida...
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:46 AM
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22. I should have thought of that.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:44 AM
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21. Hey? um... How about "Other"
I was in another country when Clinton ran for the 92 election and wasn't able to get an absentee ballot.

Since my 18th birthday it's the only election I've ever missed.

I even vote in the mysterious local elections for offices including:

Sanitation commissioner
Graveyard commissioner
Register of Deeds

not to mention the myriad of weirdly worded ballot initiatives.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:49 AM
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23. NO!
HELL NO!
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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 12:10 PM
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24. I've not missed a presidential or congressional
election but I have missed elections where the only issue on the ballot is the school board. I do regret it because even though I live in a relatively liberal suburb of St Louis I cannot take for granted nor assume that the school board will not be taken over by stealth fundamentalist candidates.

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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 12:15 PM
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25. I was living and voting in NJ, working in NYC -- and housesitting in NYC
So I would've had to ride PATH from work to Jersey City in order to vote, then back into the city to feed the guy's cats (including the big black one who slept right next to my head the whole month. Purrrrrr!) Plus, it was wet and miserable (well, duh, NYC in Nov.)

And of course that was the election that Christie Todd Witless won by one friggin' percent over McGreevey :grr:
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 01:03 PM
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27. I was incapacitated...
for two or three (can't remember which) state/local elections due to illnesses (uncontrollable barfing, passing a kidney stone). Other than that, I am always at my polling place bright and early on election day.
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AquariDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:39 PM
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29. I have never missed an election since I turned 18
But I have been guilty of not voting on all of the propositions. Does anyone really vote on all the propositions?
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leftist_rebel1569 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-29-03 12:39 AM
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30. I've missed every election in my lifetime
because...I'm too young to vote! :P
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Piperay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-29-03 02:55 AM
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31. Never have and
NEVER will. :-)
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