Americans - do you vote in the presidential election?

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Seeing as though voting is optional there, just wondering how many American users on this site vote?

yes 23
no 18
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  • Couman
    10 years ago

    Every time since I was old enough. For all the good it did...

    Even though I'm dissatisfied with our system here, I think mandatory voting is one of the few ways they could make it even worse.

    The people who aren't even interested enough to vote voluntarily are the absolute worst kind of voters to have. They probably just vote straight party-line purely out of habit, or vote for the last guy whose ad they saw on TV.

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    • cardelimo
      10 years ago

      Really? I have a bit of a problem with that word "probably" being used to define what people "definitely" are.

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      • Couman
        10 years ago

        I didn't use the word "definitely". I did say "absolute worst", if that's what you mean. To clarify, what I mean is that as a group, people who don't want to vote are the worst bunch of voters. But individually, they only "probably" vote poorly.

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  • dickwashington
    10 years ago

    the electoral college does that for me

    just kidding i dont know what the electoral college is!

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  • LizardSkin
    10 years ago

    Yes but I'm pretty confident it's rigged I don't know why I bother.

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  • Anime7
    10 years ago

    I worked at the voting polls in the presidential election between Obama and Romney. It was 10pm when we closed, we didn't even have the voting ballots boxed up yet and we already knew who won. Really, what's the point of voting for a president, when the electoral college is the ultimate force that decides who wins.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I voted for myself.

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  • TakeMeHome,GeorgiaRoads007
    10 years ago

    No. I've never voted and it's not likely I ever will (I'm 20). Never even registered. It wouldn't matter anyway considering how ringed and fake our system is. I want to be able to actually CHOOSE who my next president is and not the "Lesser of two evils". I want a genuinely GOOD option (and it would be wonderful if the good option actually had genuine say and power in our nation. Too bad over 90% of our politicians are lying, flithy scumbags). But we Americans haven't had a good leader in over 30 years.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    I am yet to have ever voted for an presidential election. See, for the the last election (2012), I was still a minor at 17 years old so, I was unable participate. I did however, help to spread political truths with other users via tumblr.

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  • Sunshine:)
    10 years ago

    Nope. Never have, never will.

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  • Royalburden
    10 years ago

    I just don't give a rat's ass, really.

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  • shuggy-chan
    10 years ago

    nope, but im #1` super jaded and #2 it was a landslide in my district anyway, so no need

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  • yesnomaybeso
    10 years ago

    I am not american so I didn't vote but I bet many people are going to lie and vote... you should have added another option. I dont know if you're interested but I do vote (although I'm 20 so I have voted like twice?)

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      Haha should my third option have been "maybe so"

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      • yesnomaybeso
        10 years ago

        that would've been cool :p

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  • anti-hero
    10 years ago

    Yes. Not that it matters much on national level. But I am already there for local stuff. So I go with who I think is the lesser of two evils.

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