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Just did!
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I’ve voted in every presidental election since 1984. I might skip between-presidental years if there’s nothing interesting or crucial in the state or local arena to vote on, but generally go in for them.
I missed voting in the 1992 presidential election by less than three months. Congratulations on your first time voting, and now get off my lawn, and turn that damn music down 
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I just came back from voting.
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I have been eligible to vote in six elections, and have done so in all of them.
In the last election for which I was ineligible to vote (2002 general), I spent the day as a poll-worker.
Heh. Me, too, buddy. I just got back from tilting at the ole windmill.
Hey, we might get lucky.
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I don’t know - I signed up for an absentee ballot but never got around to filling it out. Am I allowed to go vote in person instead, or am I screwed?
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This would be the first election I missed in 11 years.
Assuming East Bay is California, you may drop it off at any polling place. That would be easier than trying to vote in person when they have you on record as having been mailed an absentee ballot. You’d probably have to vote provisionally, a tremendous pain.
1 - I voted eight days ago, when the polls were open and I was out.
2 - Yes. I have voted every chance I’ve had since I got the right to.
I will be voting on the way home from work today. (My shift begins before polls open.)
I failed to vote in the primary election a couple of months ago because it slipped my mind, for which I kicked myself for days. Prior to that, I can’t remember the last time I missed an election, at any level. I take my civic duty very seriously even though the political system is, pretty inarguably, a giant mess.
I am the only person in my house, which makes it an oasis of peaceful political consistency, though I cannot say how the fuzzy black land shark who lives with me feels about the proposed property-tax exemption increase amendment. He’s kind of a dick sometimes so I assume he’s against it. But he’s cuddly so I forgive him.
Yay! I get to vote after all!! Thanks for the info Frank. I guess it’s not all jackbooted thuggery around here.
I was the third voter this morning. I wanted to be first.
Then I celebrated democracy, as is my tradition, by going to the diner for a post-vote pancake breakfast.
I am a much more passionate voter now than I was in my youth, and coming out of the closet has really energized me politically.
- I voted around 11:30. I usually vote after work but am currently unemployed
- I vote in all national elections and most other ones. I skipped the runoff vote for sheriff. I don’t vote the presidention primaries (Minnesota has caucuses)
Brian
Oh, I forgot to mention: Seattle has been using optically-scanned ballots (fill in the oval on the sheet, run it through the machine) for a number of years, and I haven’t seen any indication that we’re going to change any time soon. I just really like the physical, tactile nature of the ballot as an actual object, y’know? so I would miss them if they went away.
I will also miss the thousand-year-old poll worker who has been manning the station in my precinct for as long as I’ve lived in my present location. He’s irritating in that endearingly well-intentioned way (“what’s your name?” / begins paging through voter rolls, the wrong direction, every single time), and while his befuddlement may be mildly annoying I’ll be very sad when he’s no longer sitting behind the table.
- Are you voting?
Yes, well, I did. I drove back to my parents to vote, basically because I know more about the local elections there and I was registered there. I thought about registering down here where I live for college, but I don’t know any local races except for a couple, and I figured I might as well be an informed voter, since I’m only here for college…
- Do you normally vote? If not, what made you decide to start?
I do normally vote. I have voted every election since I turned 18.
Brendon
I voted early, on October 23rd (as I mentioned in a previous thread, early voting is a nice option here in Nevada.)
Have never missed voting in a major election.
I teach at a local college and was impressed to hear my students last night all telling everyone to be sure to go vote today, and almost all of them eagerly said they intended to do so. (And the vibe was certainly not in a Republican voting direction.) Glad to see these 20 somethings were motivated to go vote today.
Well, to be fair, I was trying to vote during the early voting period they started in Florida after the 2000 fiasco, so I could have come back another day. FWIW, they were letting anyone who got in the building to stay and vote, but I didn’t get that far. After wasting a day in line and percipitating a fight with my wife (who thought I’d only be gone an hour at most, and didn’t vote herself because she was only a Perminent Resident at the time), I was pretty damn angry. So now, I’m done.
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Of course.
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Yes. I’ll admit, though, that I was out of college before I started voting in non-presidential election years, and I only vote in (yearly) local elections when the ballot initiatives interest me.
I am very pleased and proud to report that my 85-year-old mother, who is in very frail health and in assisted-living, got a nurse to drive her to the polls today, where she voted.
Voted. Always do.
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Nope. I’m pretty sure I’m registered, since they usually do it when you get your drivers license, but damned if I know where the little card is. The Libertarians never win anyway.
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I think I voted for president in 2000, but I haven’t since.
I’m just glad it’s over; I’m sick of not being able to walk across campus or answer my phone without being harassed.
Absolutely. I vote in every election that I can, big or small. It’s the local stuff that will kill ya on property taxes.
My precinct is traditionally conservative. This election, the turnout was humongous. I’ve never seen so many people voting. And from the topics of conversation that I overheard while in line, it looks like we’re staying conservative, which is a good thing.