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Question: What is the first election you voted in/will be voting in?
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« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2016, 03:59:11 PM »
08 for B boogie in the general, was too young for the primaries that year
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« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2016, 05:21:52 PM »
Who claimed they voted in 1966? Since one needed to be 21 then, that gets us back to being born in 1945. Man, that's old! Smiley
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« Reply #27 on: December 24, 2016, 05:30:53 PM »
Technically it should've been the 2012 local elections, but I registered too late to make the electoral roll and I didn't have ID with my current address on it, so I didn't end up voting. So therefore the first election I actually voted in was the 2013 federal election.
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« Reply #28 on: December 24, 2016, 05:31:43 PM »
Quote from: DavidB. on December 24, 2016, 02:52:18 PM
The 2012 parliamentary election. Unofficially the 1998 parliamentary election, in which my mom took me to the polling station as a little kid and allowed me to vote for her candidate on the voting computer (which were still used back then). First and last time I voted for the left!
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« Reply #29 on: December 24, 2016, 05:36:58 PM »
First presidential election: 2016

First midterm election: 2014

First ballot ever cast: Voted against a town budget measure in 2013 on the advice of my dad, who told me they'd put no new funding toward road improvement which was sorely needed even though everyone had the Sandy Hook* shooting in mind because it had happened months prior.  The budget passed anyway.

* I'm from Sandy Hook, in case it wasn't obvious.
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« Reply #30 on: December 24, 2016, 05:54:44 PM »
2012 General Election.
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« Reply #31 on: December 24, 2016, 06:09:11 PM »
2014. Voted for Mark Schauer for Governor and Gary Peters for Senate.
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« Reply #32 on: December 24, 2016, 07:16:23 PM »
My first election was the presidential election of 2000, in which I voted for George W. Bush.  Smiley
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« Reply #33 on: December 24, 2016, 11:40:03 PM »
2012 Presidential election.
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« Reply #34 on: December 25, 2016, 02:41:19 AM »
2011 Argentina general election
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« Reply #35 on: December 25, 2016, 03:49:50 AM »
2008 general election. Casted my vote for President Obama.
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« Reply #36 on: December 25, 2016, 03:54:29 AM »
2016 primary (everything but President).
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« Reply #37 on: December 25, 2016, 05:49:02 AM »
Baden-Württemberg state election, 2011. I remember missing Germany's federal election of 2009 because I was ten days short of my 18th birthday.
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« Reply #38 on: December 25, 2016, 08:28:29 AM »
European Parliament election, 2009
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« Reply #39 on: December 25, 2016, 10:13:21 AM »
2006 Austrian federal election was the first I voted in.

(because there was no election in 2005 when I turned 18 and the voting age was only later lowered to 16 in 2007).
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« Reply #40 on: December 25, 2016, 10:25:21 AM »
Quote from: Tender Branson on December 25, 2016, 10:13:21 AM
2006 Austrian federal election was the first I voted in.

the same. Smiley

(and the vienna mayoral election of 2005)
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« Reply #41 on: December 25, 2016, 10:51:33 AM »
Could not vote in poll due to discriminatory choices. (Screw you, OP). But my first vote was the 2006 federal election. The 2004 federal election was held 47 days before my 18th birthday. Sad
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« Reply #42 on: December 25, 2016, 12:38:55 PM »
2009 Democratic virginia gubernatorial nomination.
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« Reply #43 on: December 25, 2016, 01:02:48 PM »
November 2019, if I go to a college in a state that has elections then.(So NJ, LA, KY, MS, and VA.)
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« Reply #44 on: December 27, 2016, 11:11:43 PM »

Im 17 currently so I couldn't vote for Donald J. Trump this year; however I'll be voting for President Donald J. Trump on November 3rd, 2020.
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« Reply #45 on: December 27, 2016, 11:16:11 PM »
Quote from: Torie on December 24, 2016, 05:21:52 PM
Who claimed they voted in 1966? Since one needed to be 21 then, that gets us back to being born in 1945. Man, that's old! Smiley

I'm curious as to why the poll shifts from presidential years back to 1972, then to off year elections for 1970, 66 and 62 with no mention of the presidential years that decade.
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« Reply #46 on: December 28, 2016, 01:05:39 AM »
2008 primary
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« Reply #47 on: December 28, 2016, 02:51:54 AM »
1992

The only GE election I missed was in 2012, but literally had just rolled into Texas two days before because of a rapid work transfer scene, and no way to register to vote that quickly.... Sad

Off-year elections, since 1992 the only one I missed was 2014, because I couldn't afford the expense of getting a TX driver's license at the time, so kept my out of state license rather than pay the exorbitant "poll tax" that Texas charges for people shifting their DLs for the honor and privilege of living in the Great State of Texas.

Cool to see a number of posters that voted in elections prior to me.... sometimes on the forum it seems to be dominated by fairly young posters, which is totally cool and awesome, but I like the historical perspective and contributions that some of the older posters make, as well as quite a bit less of the emotionally charged rhetoric that sometimes pops up on whatever the current GE election thread board happens to be....

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« Reply #48 on: December 28, 2016, 08:15:56 AM »
Reagan's first term.
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« Reply #49 on: December 28, 2016, 08:49:10 AM »
A bunch of referendums in February 2008, the most exciting of which was to ban smoking in public places.

First proper "elections" was the Cantonal election in 2009.
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