Who votes, who doesn't and why?

Question

Im doing a story for KOMU, the NBC affiliate news channel in Columbia Missouri and YOUR answers could be featured on the station...all you have to do is post your answers or comments.

Answer 1

Post them where?

You have to wonder if all the people who do not vote, if their were to be corruption, how easily it would be for someone to cast a vote in their name and they would never even know it.

Just imagine the difference that 30, 40, or 50 percent of the US population could mean to the outcome of any election.

People are CRAZY not to use their RIGHTS to do this. Do you have any idea what a privilege it is to be able to cast a vote at all?

Perhaps they should live in some repressed country so they an really appreciate the rights they are squandering.

Neglecting them could very well propel you into that type of government if it hasn't already.


OMG: 75 percent?

What's posted below is downright SHAMEFUL.

You all have NO RIGHT to complain about anything or expect anything of your government then....none whatsoever.

Do you know that you LEGALLY have no right to complain if you don't vote? At least in our country that's the case!!

Perhaps that holds true there too, and is why they can ram just about anything down your throats in America too.

Answer 2

I am like 75% of the American people. I am one of the 50% who have never registered to vote. Of course only half of those who register, actually go and vote. The biggest reason-there has never been any difference in my life or circumstances whether things are run by the Democrats or the Republicans. Both partys are run by big business and really pay no attention to the average, moderate, everyday American citizen. The big business interests and PACs own them by the time they are elected to any major office and they have to vote to please those supporters in order to be re- elected. I rarely even turn my tv on during an election cycle and have been known to not know who was elected to the presidency or my state governorship for weeks after the election. It simply doesn't matter to me one way or another.

Answer 3

I have voted in every election, since I became an American Citizen in 1965. It is an honor to vote and I don't understand why so many people chose not to participate, but complain constantly about the minute and the major political happenings.
No one has a right to criticize anything, unless they are a registered voter and vote.

Answer 4

I don't vote..I lost my rights as an American citizen to vote when I got a felony DUI no less..not a murder or rape charge..a charge hopped up by the police as our biggest crime wave...But that's okay though..I still have the duty to serve my country in a war and now I pay my taxes just the same..but no voice in who should be in office.

Answer 5

I first became eligible to vote in 1960, when I reached my 21st birthday. Since then I have voted in every general, special and primary election. If you don't vote, you're not a citizen. You're an inhabitant!