<p>... and why?</p>
<p>I am not voting...</p>
<p>... because I am not allowed to :)</p>
<p>Who's not voting? Hippies, that's who.</p>
<p>I will not be voting because I feel like I am not informed enough about any current political issues and where the candidates stand on them. I have tried to follow politics and figure out where I stand, but the issues keep changing and I think that if i were to vote I would want it to be an informed opinion not just a random choice.</p>
<p>i won't vote.... 'cause i'm not old enough to</p>
<p>Not a citizen.</p>
<p>I will vote in the main election, but I won't be voting in the canadate election because its before my birthday.</p>
<p>I probably won't vote this year because I know I'll never register in time. I'm lazy like that.</p>
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I will not be voting because I feel like I am not informed enough about any current political issues and where the candidates stand on them. I have tried to follow politics and figure out where I stand, but the issues keep changing and I think that if i were to vote I would want it to be an informed opinion not just a random choice.
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<p>you still have 11 months.</p>
<p>After awhile, there will only be 2 candidates left, so you can read about 2, instead of 15.</p>
<p>I'm not voting because the dems gonna win in CA anyways</p>
<p>To all of you who aren't voting for reasons like you don't think it will make a difference or you don't know enough about the candidates, those are the wrong reasons! You have to vote for your own good! </p>
<p>Ever wonder shy most (if not all) politicians cater to old people with their policies such as social security and medicare instead of focusing on more important stuff like the environment or the economy? Even though they're useless geezers and we're the future, they are the ones who are actually voting and using their power. We are all given the right to influence public policy but only 30% of our generation is actually voting while over 90% of people 65 years old or older vote. While we are wasting time protesting and rallying the old people are voting. And what have those protests done for us? NOTHING! We're still fighting a pointless war in Iraq instead of focusing on stem cell research or alternative energy sources. </p>
<p>So the point of this is we should get out and vote: the proper way to make our voices heard.</p>
<p>I'm not voting because I am registed in the state of my school and I will be home when the primary is occurring here. As for the actual election, I will hopefully be studying abroad in Germany during the fall semester, so I guess I could do an absantee ballot, but I'm lazy and probably won't get around to that. I don't really care that much. The only people I really like won't make it past the primaries anyway, so...whatever.</p>
<p>I'm not voting in the primaries because I registered as an independent and didn't fill out the paperwork to change it by the deadline in my state. But I will be voting absentee while I'm abroad in November.</p>
<p>VOTE -- because the decisions made now will affect us when our generation takes center stage in world events -- they will determine what we will have to deal with in 5, 10, 20 years.</p>
<p>I didn't participate in the caucus (I'm from and attend school in Iowa) because I was at work that night, but we watched everything on TV as it happened--both myself and the kid I was working with wanted to attend. </p>
<p>I'll definitely be voting in November.</p>
<p>I will definitely be voting in November, and I'm going to try to vote in the primary but I have 3 classes that day so I don't know if I'm going to have time to get home after my classes are over but before the voting closes. Hopefully so, though. I'm going to try. And I am voting even though it probably won't "count" because I'm in such an overwhelming Republican state and I'm a dem.</p>
<p>I don't even know how I would do it...I live in Miami but I'm in Chicago for school, how does that work? I also haven't really followed anything. I'll try to catch up though because this will be my first year to legally vote.</p>
<p>KindlyCuddly,</p>
<p>you vote where you list your permanent address, which is probably your home (as opposed to school). You can request an absentee ballot online, and one will come to you in the mail. All you have to do is fill it out and mail it back.</p>
<p>In addition, you can vote "absentee in person". If you will be home sometime next fall before the election (fall break?), you can go to a local polling place and vote ahead of time. You can only do this if you would not be able to vote on election day, which is the case for college students voting at home.</p>
<p>I'm not voting because I'm not registered and too lazy.</p>
<p>and I trust that my fellow citizens will make the right decision</p>
<p>I may vote, but remain undecided as of yet. Frankly, I am not a fan of American democracy, and would sooner see this sickening practice, of questionable Constitutional merit no less, snuffed out. If a candidate that appeals to me gets the GOP nomination (ex: Ron Paul), then I will vote. Otherwise, it is pointless. I refuse to vote for either major party based on the "they're the only valid options" line of thought. But I know that there is not yet a viable third party, and that such is years away. So why waste the day voting for some random, unfamiliar libertarian, when I know my vote will do nothing? We're long past the era where the House is empowered to choose from among five leading candidates. These days, it is a two man race, often between a socialist in disguise and an Evangelical-pandering freedom hater.</p>
<p>I'm also too lazy to vote.</p>