i do not care who you vote for or which party but i am asking you to take the time to get out and vote -- we seniors need to be a voice strong enough to bring awareness that we are a force that will not be igroned!!!!
2007-12-14 00:48:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I read, attend public meetings, research, think a bit, discuss candidates and issues on the ballot with my family-neighbors-colleagues, and then I vote. I've missed maybe 4 or 5 voting days (local ballots) in the 31 years I've been eligible to vote. I was taught, and have always agreed, that voting is not simply a priviledge but a duty. I do get frustrated sometimes, but I'd rather participate than sit out elections.
2007-12-14 01:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In all honesty I have voted in very few. Why? Because I didn't like any of the candidates. I always wished there was a box for "none of the above" so they would get it through their heads that many don't like the choices they are giving us to pick from. I don't consider it much of a choice when I'm picking between the worst of pre-selected evils.
However, I have come around now, since I've felt passionately about a few topics and actually got out there and tried to do something and threw a wrench into some well laid out plans. For the first time I actually felt my vote did matter and I believe that revelation has come to many this election. People are fed up and now more than ever our voices need to be heard.
2007-12-14 12:08:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I first became eligible to vote in 1960, when I reached my 21st birthday. The 26th Amendment had not yet been proposed or ratified. Since then I have voted in every general, special and primary election. Some of those votes were cast from distances exceeding eight thousand miles from my polling place. In addition, my name has been on a ballot twice and one of my sons once.
Since I no longer belong to any political party I will wait until this political beauty pageant is done with and nominees for President and Vice President are selected by their respective parties. However, looking at the current crop of candidates I am sorry that I don't have the concession rights to sell clothes pins for the delegates to wear on their noses at their conventions. LOL!
2007-12-14 11:38:38 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't make it to every political election in the city and state, but I make it a point to try to get to the polls for Government elections. to voice my opinions when I truly can. If I could, I would. But what makes this country great is the fact that even if you don't vote, you can still complain about the system and get away with it. That may anger a lot of people, but it is also how this country was set up. Every person is supposed to have the right to vote or not vote. To choose or not choose. To complain or not complain. That is the very basis of this country, choice! In my opinion.
2007-12-14 08:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully we all learned a lesson about voting. It was voter apathy that got Bush and Co. elected. Too many people sat on their butts and didn't bother to vote.
Sometimes you get the leadership you deserve.
I am 67 years old and have voted in EVERY election; local, state and Federal since I've been old enough to do so. I feel it is my duty as an American citizen to take part in my government.....after all, it is "we, the people" who are supposed to mandate our government, not the other way around.
2007-12-15 01:05:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have voted in every presidential election, and most local elections since I was 18. I was also an election judge a few years ago in a local election and had to hand count all the votes, that is where you really learn that one vote does make a difference. BTW... I voted for Perry for mayor.
2007-12-14 11:06:14 · answer #6 · answered by noonecanne 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have since I was able to vote, but for the presidential election primaries,and the presidential election when it comes I am not voting. I do not like anyone running,sorry, but they are all full of hot air, all lie thru their teeth, all promise things they will never give us,so I don't care who gets in they are all too rich and have no idea where we the walking poor and seniors need.
2007-12-14 08:56:09 · answer #7 · answered by lonepinesusan 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll be 60 in a few weeks. I have voted in EVERY election that I was eligible to vote in save one. When I was in Vietnam I trusted a political party to get me an absentee ballot. It was a failure, either through their own misdeeds or those of the Post Office I never received that ballot. Since then I have never relied on anyone but myself to handle the necessary details for me to vote. I suppose I have adopted the attitude of "Fool me once, shame on you etc, etc".
I have been abused in most any way that an adult can be abused but I simply won't allow someone to ignore me. Many of the elected officials in my state know me on sight. I can be a royal pain and most of them know it all too well. Living within easy commuting distance to the state capital doesn't hurt anything either.
2007-12-14 11:25:43 · answer #8 · answered by gimpalomg 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mr.. Ed I always vote - usually absentee as I cannot get around too well. And on that note - am so sorry that I will be unable to join you in Tennessee - I would have liked to meet some of the nice people in Senior Citizens. CJ
2007-12-14 16:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't vote in primaries because they won't let me declare that I'm an independent. I did go confuse them one year because the school board election was on the primary day.. It took three people to figure out that I could vote for the school board without declaring a party! Otherwise - yes - I vote. I figure you can't bit ch if you don't vote.
2007-12-14 09:34:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋