It would've been my first vote, too!!

[arthoniel]

Dear New York State,

You know I love you. But actually telling me that I am indeed registered to vote like you said you would over two weeks ago so I could've gotten an absentee ballot and voted in my first election as an adult would have been appreciated. Instead of, you know, not doing that. Something to remember for the future, mmkay?

Thanks,
Arthoniel

That being said, to all of the other USA-ers on my flist over the age of 18... DON'T FOLLOW MY UNINTENTIONAL EXAMPLE! GO VOTE!! IT'S OUR VOICE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW PISSED I AM THAT I CAN'T DO THAT NOW. SO GO VOTE!! IT'S IMPORTANT.

Comments

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

Huh... I didn't know we could do that- it's never an option that's been presented to me before, and I'm relatively informed, for an American. That's interesting. I'm more optimistic, so I don't know if I'd use that... but it's interesting, knowing that that is an option for me.

[engelen.livejournal.com]

well, I don't know, I mean, Mexican and American voting laws are different. Your friend just informed me that's not possible in the US.
Actually... I don't mean to sound like an ass, or an upity better-than-thou bitch, but your election system kind of sucks, in that it's not a DIRECT vote.

In Mexico, all votes are counted, there's no such thing as "this state is worth this much," and we are allowed to nullify our vote or nominate someone else (during the last elections, a lot of people nominated "suck my cock," "you all suck," "Edgar," etc... we do have a sense of humor despite our pessimism :P)

Of course, Mexican politics suck, they'reeternally corrupted, incoherent (like, you get the leftist party advocating for death penalty WHAT THE FUCK!? Or the conservative party pushing for public policies, so nothing makes sense), and everybody is everyboy else's cousin.

This was a long comment, I'm sorry

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

It's not? Aw, damn. Oh well... I'm the kind of person who still probably would have voted for someone anyway. XD

And don't worry, you don't sound bad by saying it. Most Americans who really know what it is don't like our Electoral College either. It was created when the country was founded because our founding fathers didn't trust the people to be smart... the way my U.S. History teacher told it to us, he said that basically they thought that we were uneducated enough to vote for even something like a broom with a catchy sign around it's neck like "I'll sweep away crime!" or something. So when you consider it from that perspective, that's why it's there... but there are a lot of people who want to abolish it. It's kind of a ridiculous system.

But... I've kind of gathered what you think about Mexican politics through your entries on it before. I guess it's just kind of screwed up all over. ;;

And no worries. I wrote a whole essay to my friend... and this is a pretty long comment too, so it's all good. XD

[engelen.livejournal.com]

LOL I just think that that system doesn't make sense in a country that calls itself "the land of the free" and other stuff about democracy... because of how anti-democratic it is :\
And we vote for the "handsome" candidate, or the one that hands out the most sandwichs, so we're not much better (tho some people DO believe that "if we're gonna get screwed, at least we'll be screwed by a handsome face")

CONCLUSION: Voting is important.

[arthoniel.livejournal.com]

I believe that I would have to agree with your conclusion.

And yes. It is very undemocratic. Yays for irony?