Are You Registered?

[Cataholic]

I don't know about most states but I'm pretty sure that when you get your driver's license at 18 you are automatically registered to vote, or is it that you are automatically forced to register for a draft if it were to happen?

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!

[CathyBogart]

Yeah, I'm registered.

[lady_zana]

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!

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.

[Cataholic]

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.

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

[lvpets2002]

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

[smokey the elder]

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.

[lizbud]

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

Imagine that. Wow.

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