Registered Voters

[TheWildCard]

Okay so this kind of goes in line with the other polls out there. I kind of came up with this because I just registered to vote yesterday.

my answer was yes in the US of course

[PD]

No. I'm too young.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

I registered as soon as I could (sent in the forms early so I would be registered by my 18th b'day) and cast my first ballot two days after I turned 18, having recieved my voter registration card at 3pm on Election day

[12th Doctor]

I registered Feb. 8th 2002, the day I turned 18.  

[Demrepdan]

I registered on my 18th birthday too. October 2nd, 2001. I went down to the Champaign County Clerk's office and NOT the DMV. And I registered, and a month later got my card.

The first election I participated in was the Illinois Democratic Primaries on March 19, 2002. Then I voted in the General election on November 2, 2002.

Only one more month till the Illinois Primaries!

March 16th....2004.

[TheWildCard]

I must say its cool to see other people who take the right to vote seriously... The lady who took my registration was sooo happy to see a young person register it was almost scary.

I shall never forget filling in the bubble for the Republican party. I can't wait to vote for Bush in the primaries! )

[Huckleberry Finn]

There is no voters registration in Finland att all. Every adult citizen is registered as voter by government. Sounds bureaucratic, but it is not. Excellent system actually, because it guarantees high participation in election. About 65-80 percent of voters use their right in most elections. It is also possibly cheaper for taxpayers that your system!

I think all European counties have this system.

Weird thing is that in Belgium and Australia voting is compulsory!!

[Gustaf]

Same here, since Sweden doesn't have voter registration I won't need to when I reach 18. Are we supposed to answer the poll or not then?

It gives a turnout of 80% in the only real elections we hold, not counting the European ones that are usually immensely boring.

[TheWildCard]

Same here, since Sweden doesn't have voter registration I won't need to when I reach 18. Are we supposed to answer the poll or not then?

Yes if you want.

[Gustaf]

Same here, since Sweden doesn't have voter registration I won't need to when I reach 18. Are we supposed to answer the poll or not then?

Yes if you want.

Well, with what answer, since we cannot registrate b/c there is no system for it?

Then again, I could just answer that I don't have the right to vote, but others would get into triuble.

[TheWildCard]

Same here, since Sweden doesn't have voter registration I won't need to when I reach 18. Are we supposed to answer the poll or not then?

Yes if you want.

Well, with what answer, since we cannot registrate b/c there is no system for it?

Then again, I could just answer that I don't have the right to vote, but others would get into triuble.

If you live in the US and you can vote and will vote go for option 1
If you live outside the US, are not a US citizen and plan to vote in your countries next election go for option 2
If you're old enough and don't plan on voting vote for option 3
If your too young to vote go for 4

[Gustaf]

Same here, since Sweden doesn't have voter registration I won't need to when I reach 18. Are we supposed to answer the poll or not then?

Yes if you want.

Well, with what answer, since we cannot registrate b/c there is no system for it?

Then again, I could just answer that I don't have the right to vote, but others would get into triuble.

If you live in the US and you can vote and will vote go for option 1
If you live outside the US, are not a US citizen and plan to vote in your countries next election go for option 2
If you're old enough and don't plan on voting vote for option 3
If your too young to vote go for 4

OK, sorry for all the stupid questions...if I am right NOW to young to vote, but will reach voting age before the next elections, and plan to vote THEN, it's option 2, right?

[© tweed]

I registered in 1984 as a Democrat, and in my first ballot, I proudly cast my vote for Walter Mondale.

[MAS117]

too young, but doing everything i can to help my candidtaes win

[MarkDel]

Miami,

We are obviously the same age then. I registered in 1984 at age 18 and proudly cast my first official vote for Ronald Wilson Reagan, plus I worked on his campaign that fall while in my Freshman year at college.

[7,052,770]

I am too young.
Unfortunately, I do not turn 18 until November 14 of this year. . . . which means I miss out on voting.

[Michael Z]

I'm a registered voter in the UK; to my dismay I was 2 months too young to vote in the 1997 general election (I turned 18 in July 97, the election was in May...). However, that year I definitely would have voted Labour.

I did vote in the following election in 2001, and cast my vote for the Lib Dems; it was primarily a protest vote against the introduction of university fees. Not that my vote would've made much of a impact on the result, since I live in a Labour constituency (Ilford North)... kinda the British equivalent of voting Dem in Texas or Utah.

[KEmperor]

I registered to vote when I was 17 actually.  Apparently im my school district you can vote at 17, so that was the first election I took part in.  Then I voted in the presidental election the year later.

[NHPolitico]

First vote was Bush-Quayle '92.

[dunn]

Same here, since Sweden doesn't have voter registration I won't need to when I reach 18. Are we supposed to answer the poll or not then?

Yes if you want.

Well, with what answer, since we cannot registrate b/c there is no system for it?

Then again, I could just answer that I don't have the right to vote, but others would get into triuble.

If you live in the US and you can vote and will vote go for option 1
If you live outside the US, are not a US citizen and plan to vote in your countries next election go for option 2
If you're old enough and don't plan on voting vote for option 3
If your too young to vote go for 4

OK, sorry for all the stupid questions...if I am right NOW to young to vote, but will reach voting age before the next elections, and plan to vote THEN, it's option 2, right?

it's non of the above acttualy. I Isrrael it's like in Sweden, Finland and many european countries - no registration. so we can't vote on tjis one really, unless they add another answer

[JohnFKennedy]

too young will be able to vote in the next british general election though most probably

[Nation]

Missed the 2002 Congressional/Gubernatorial elections by several months. Get to vote in the primaries in a couple weeks.

[© tweed]

Missed the 2002 Congressional/Gubernatorial elections by several months. Get to vote in the primaries in a couple weeks.

JOHN EDWARDS

[Nym90]

I just missed voting in 1996 by 2 months. Cast my first vote in 1998.

[ShapeShifter]

yes. i think i was registered by one of those people on the streets that bug the heck you of you to register so they can earn a dollar. pathetic if you ask me.