National Voter Registration Day

In My Humble Opinion
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Today is National Voter Registration Day!

If you are eligible to vote, it’s a great day to register to vote. But time is running out, depending on your location. Don’t put it off, do it today.

Topics to discuss: are you registered to vote, or not? When did you first vote? When did you most recently vote?

(Note: this is not a political thread; please keep partisanship out.)

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  1. Yes. Always.
  2. At my first legal opportunity sometime back around 1976.
  3. Last month at the primaries.
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Registered.

First voted in 2004 (I wish Kerry would’ve won)

I try to vote in every primary and general election I can. President, federal congress, state elections, local elections. My most recent vote was the primaries.

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  1. Yes, since I was 18.
  2. The 1998 midterms, for NC Senator John Edwards.
  3. The primaries, last March. California has an open, non-partisan primary for every race except president, so even if I wasn’t registered under any party I’d still get a ballot for statewide offices.
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I recently moved. I thought I had changed my address with voter registration. But, the card hasn’t shown up in the mail. I went to the voter registration web site. It said I was a registered voter, but at my old address.I updated my registration. I just received a confirmation e-mail saying my address was changed and I would be receiving a card in the mail.

I cannot remember exactly when I first voted. It was the first election, local or state or national, I could vote in after I turned 18.

I last voted in Philly elections for mayor, a few other positions and some ballot questions.

I have literally missed only one election since I turned 18. I had a bad flu. There were no ballot questions. The highest office on the ballot was county coroner.

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I’m registered and have been for a long time. In the past 30 years I’ve voted every election.

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  1. Yes.
  2. 1992 for Clinton - first major election after I was of age. But I’ve only been consistent in voting in more local elections after hitting my mid-to-late 20s or so.
  3. In the recent primaries, although, TBH, I chose to vote in the Republican Primary for Haley, just to get Trump’s goat.*

[ I’m strategically registered as Libertarian here in Colorado, so they send me both the (D) and (R) ballots and I get to select one (1) to pick and return. Since there was fundamentally zero chance that Trump or Biden (at the time) wouldn’t be selected respectively, I figured it amused me more to metaphorically poke Trump with the disloyalty of his base than increase Biden’s numbers with a +1. ]

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  1. Yes
  2. I first voted in 1972 for George McGovern.
  3. I last voted yesterday, when I mailed in my absentee ballot.