# National Voter Registration Day **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388 "2024-09-17T16:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/1 "2024-09-17T16:29:29Z")
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. > **[National Voter Registration Day](https://nationalvoterregistrationday.org/)** > > National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus attention on the importance of registering to vote and voting in our democracy during a single day of on-the-ground and digital... > **[Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov](https://vote.gov/)** > > Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government. 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.) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/2 "2024-09-17T19:16:16Z")
1. Yes. Always. 2. At my first legal opportunity sometime back around 1976. 3. Last month at the primaries. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/3 "2024-09-17T19:18:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/4 "2024-09-17T23:14:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2024, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/5 "2024-09-17T23:31:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/6 "2024-09-18T15:36:12Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > are you registered to vote, or not? When did you first vote? When did you most recently vote? I’m registered and have been for a long time. In the past 30 years I’ve voted every election. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/7 "2024-09-18T16:02:43Z")
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.] ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/national-voter-registration-day/1007388/8 "2024-09-26T20:43:54Z")
1. Yes 2. I first voted in 1972 for George McGovern. 3. I last voted yesterday, when I mailed in my absentee ballot.