Are You Registered?

I registered to vote a week after I turned 18.

Registering and voting is compulsory down here. Anyone who will be away, is ill or has any other reasonable excuse can apply for a postal vote so there's absolutely no excuse for not voting in Australia.

lol I know I dont have to technicaly be registered to vote, but during some elections reps will drop by the houses and ask how many people in the house are elgiable tovote, they get their names and give them a little ticket thing that siad when and where to vote, thats not for voting in general though, just for some elections to help keep things organized, so that is what I think of by being "registered" to vote. I could not have voted in the last election anyhow as I have no ID lol I was lucky to even get my cell phone with only a credit card and social insurence number.

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Originally Posted by Cataholic

It has been a long time since I aquired my license, but, I think it is still possible to acquire one at 16, 2 years before one is given the right to vote. And, two years before one could be 'drafted'. So, I don't think that is the case. I think it is possible to register to vote at the same time you renew your license, once 18, but, I don't think it is automatic. As for the 'draft'...I don't think the US has one any longer....but, I think males upon attaining the age of 18 are required to register with the selective service.

As for voting....it is a RIGHT, not an obligation. While I am registered to vote, and I do vote, I don't think anyone HAS to do it, if they feel some reason otherwise. Here, in my county, the jury duty is tied into the voter registration in the county. So, if you are not registered, you won't be called for jury duty. That might be a reason in and of itself NOT to register! :D

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Not any longer..........jury duty is also tied to having phone numbers. Even if you never register to vote, you can be called to jury duty by having a land line phone. Many states also put your name in for jury duty, I believe, for having a valid drivers' lisence.

They stopped making jury duty tied only to voting several decades ago because people stopped registering to vote so they wouldn't have to get called on jury duty. :rolleyes: ;) :p

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Originally Posted by lady_zana

Not any longer..........jury duty is also tied to having phone numbers. Even if you never register to vote, you can be called to jury duty by having a land line phone. Many states also put your name in for jury duty, I believe, for having a valid drivers' lisence.

They stopped making jury duty tied only to voting several decades ago because people stopped registering to vote so they wouldn't have to get called on jury duty. :rolleyes: ;) :p

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Where I live, in Hamilton County, it is tied to voter registration. Not land lines. :D I wouldn't ever be picked to serve..I don't have a land line, and I am registered!

:) Of course I registered as soon as I was of age..

I'm registered to vote. I even voted absentee for some of the elections while I was in college. The way some of the recent elections have been so close (in the USA and Italy, for example) one vote really DOES count. If you don't vote, your country might end up like Iran with a whack job for a head of state.

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Originally Posted by smokey the elder

If you don't vote, your country might end up like Iran with a whack job for a head of state.

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Imagine that. Wow. :D

I keep my registration current. I'm always really to vote. ;)

Im over 18 years old and not reg. dont see the need to.
they do as the dang well please anyway so why bother