- Do you usually vote in any elections?
- Do you vote in most every election?
- Do you think your vote matters?
- If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
- Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
- What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
- How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
- I tend to vote in presidential elections.
- No. Mostly just presidential.
- As much as anyone’s.
- I really don’t know. Ambivalent, probably; annoyed that my vote did not count, but satisfied that there’s a process in place that is checking such things.
- No. A part of being free is being able to opt out of such things.
- Not applicable.
- Not very long. A day or two. There is no cake.
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Do you usually vote in any elections?
I haven’t voted for nearly 10 years, because under Australian law I can’t and under Ohio law I can’t -
Do you vote in most every election?
See above -
Do you think your vote matters?
It might if I had one – though usually it wouldn’t. -
If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I’d feel begrudged. -
Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
Yes. -
What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
Yes – it doesn’t really matter why they vote, voting is still important. -
How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
About what? Election results? Yes, I’ll watch the results coming up on TV or the Net – and usually there’s beer or wine, not cake.
- Yes
- Yes
- For small local elections (school levies, etc.) then yes. For national elections… well, only insofar as I am one data point in the trend.
- I would complain.
- Worthwhile, maybe. Not hugely important in the grand scheme of things, but not completely insignificant either.
- Then I would just think they were immature and being a dick.
- Depends on how bad the election season was. No cake. Diabetic.
- Yes
- Yes
- No
- No
- Yes
- Yes
- Till the next election.
) Do you usually vote in any elections?
Prsidential only
2) Do you vote in most every election?
No
3) Do you think your vote matters?
No
4) If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I woulld feel angry
5) Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
No
6) What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
No
7) How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
What do you mean? What can I do when a president has been elected?
- Do you usually vote in any elections? I have voted in every election for which I was eligible since 1972, which means every election held wherever I have lived since I was 18.
- Do you vote in most every election? See #1.
- Do you think your vote matters? It matters to me.
- If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical? If the election were close I would attempt to overturn the ruling. Otherwise I wouldn’t waste the time.
- Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have? No.
- What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important? No.
- How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake? Any euphoria or gloom usually wears off by the next morning. No cake.
- I’ve missed two elections since I turned 18 and it’s because, due to a paperwork problem, I wasn’t allowed to vote in them (if you return after having made the mistake of living officially out of the country, it takes 6 months to reactivate your voting rights; after that, I just don’t register as being out of the country).
- See 1.
- Yes. There was an instance where a “rogue” party got two European MPs and were 40 votes away from getting a third: I personally know more than 40 people who told me “I would have voted for them, but didn’t because I thought it would be useless.” Well, there you are: it wouldn’t have been.
- Sorry, in Spain there’s no signatures required for voting. Does not apply.
- See 3.
- I don’t tell people what do I vote, usually. I think it’s a stupid reason to choose who to vote for, but not much more stupid than “I belong to group-XYZ and that group votes for party ABC, therefore I vote ABC.” Funny thing is, I’ve said who do I vote for here: I don’t talk about it irl.
- I don’t do either, but I groan any time any party gets an absolute majority. Whether it’s “my guys” or “their guys” or whichever’s guys, absolute majority is spelled exactly the same way as “idiocy.” Every time a party has had absolute majority, be it at the local, regional, or national level, the guys in the government have done whatever their asses farted, with no regard to the opinions of anybody else (including their own party’s bases).
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Perplexed - possibly outraged.
- Yes - I believe it is your civic duty to vote.
- Yes
- I have a long and glorious history of voting for parties that have only a small chance of ever being elected into representative office. If one of them ever were, I would be most delighted.
White South African living in South Africa - I think that makes a difference…
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Do you usually vote in any elections?
Yes. -
Do you vote in most every election?
Yes. -
Do you think your vote matters?
Yes. -
If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
Begrudged. -
Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
No. -
What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
No. -
How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
I sulk until the next election, no matter who wins. Cake is irrelevant.
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Do you usually vote in any elections?
Yes. -
Do you vote in most every election?
Yes. Since I became a registered voter in 1984, I’ve missed only a handful of local elections, and have never missed a race for Federal office. I also volunteer on campaigns and donate money. -
Do you think your vote matters?
Yes, in the aggregate. -
If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I’d feel begrudged and, within the bounds of the law, would try to have the decision reversed. -
Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
Yes, and I’ve done so several times in the past. -
What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
Yes. That’s never happened, although a friend of mine has joked that his vote cancels mine out of every time. I remind him that my wife shares my political views and usually votes the same way I do.
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How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
In a big, consequential election, I celebrate on Election Night and feel good for several days afterwards. If the result leaves me sulking, that can last for months or even (intermittently) years, e.g. 2001-2009. No cake.
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Do you usually vote in any elections?
Yes, except for things like school board only special elections -
Do you vote in most every election?
See above -
Do you think your vote matters?
Not really. -
If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I’d be begrudged and hopping mad and I’d have one less friend. -
Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
Absolutely not. If they are not informed or motivated enough to vote it’s better that they don’t. -
What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
From above, I wouldn’t try to influence anyone to vote. -
How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
In 2004, 4 years of sulking. In 2008, the party is still going!
- Yes.
- I first voted in 1970, and I’ve missed only 2 or 3 since then.
- Most of the time. However, my congressfool-for-life is in a very safe district, and my vote can’t hurt him.
- That’s not how it works here. If you’re disputed, you get a provisional ballot.
- Probably yes, but I won’t be out there knocking on doors.
- I’d think he was a twit.
- I’m not much into gloating, but I do have a Yes, We Did! sticker on my truck. I was watching Obama’s inauguration in my favorite bar, and I bought a round for the house.
I didn’t sulk over GHWB, but I was depressed a long, long time over GWB. Oh, and cake? For Dick Cheney, it was yellow cake.
- I vote in every election I can; I didn’t vote in Virginia’s presidential primary mostly because of ambivalence, and I didn’t vote in Virginia’s gubernatorial primary because I would have had to arrange for an absentee ballot while at home, and I forgot.
- Yes
- In some ways, yes; mathematically, for the most part, not really.
- I’d wonder what the hell he was talking about, because voting doesn’t require signatures.
- Yes, and I do try to do that.
- I’d say “You’re a jerk.” But I wouldn’t regret what I’d done.
- I don’t usually react visibly. No cake.
- Do you usually vote in any elections? Yes
- Do you vote in most every election? Yes
- Do you think your vote matters? Yes
- If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical? Ticked - I don’t think they can match a sig to a vote, at least not here!
- Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have? Yes
- What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important? Yep - Maybe eventually they will start THINKING!
- How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake? I don’t sulk - I get organizing. Cake happens even if there is no election!
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Do you usually vote in any elections?
Yes, it’s compulsory here. But I’m pretty sure I would anyway -
Do you vote in most every election?
Yes. -
Do you think your vote matters?
Singularly no, but as part of the collective, yes. -
If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I would be annoyed at being excluded from the process, but unless the election was decided by one vote I wouldn’t worry too much. -
Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
Not really an issue here, but no. -
What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
I’d think s/he was an idiot, but then put it out of my mind. -
How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
Usually no more than a day. There’s wine and Champagne.
- Yes.
- No
- No
- No
- No
- N/A
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- Yes, it’s compulsory
- Yes, it’s compulsory, although I’d still vote even if it weren’t.
- Not always, but certainly in elections for multiple-member electorates (such as upper house elections), in which proportional representation systems apply.
- Begrudged, although I’d accept it if the appropriate process (including right of appeal) were followed.
- Yes
- I wouldn’t be concerned. After all, everyone is supposed to vote here anyway.
- Assuming that you’re referring to the results of the election, I don’t really do either.
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Do you usually vote in any elections?
Every one. Oregon is 100% vote by mail. Makes it very easy to do. -
Do you vote in most every election?
Every. Single. One. -
Do you think your vote matters?
Yes -
If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I’d challenge it. If my vote by mail ballot is rejected I am notified. It can only be thrown out if I say so, like if I think someone else used my ballot. -
Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
I don’t think anyone else should vote, just me. Encouraging people to vote who don’t care much about voting is wrong on a lot of levels. -
What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
N/A -
How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
Meh.
- Do you usually vote in any elections?
Yes. Well, the American elections. I don’t vote in like, Kazakhstan.
- Do you vote in most every election?
I try. I realized last year, though, that I have never voted in a midterm election. Twice I was out of the country and fucked up with getting my absentee ballot, and once I had just moved to a new state and couldn’t fucking find registration forms ANYWHERE. (MICHIGAN I’M LOOKING AT YOU. What kind of state doesn’t have registration forms at libraries and post offices?)
- Do you think your vote matters?
Sure.
- If your friend the election judge told you it was thrown out because your signature looked wrong would you feel begrudged or philosophical?
I would feel begrudged, if only because my signature is quite consistent and anyone who disagreed would almost certainly intending to disenfranchise me.
- Do you think it’s important to convince one person to vote who might not have?
Well, it’s important to vote. But I’m not going to beg people to do it.
- What if they told you they voted opposite out of spite so you’ll get off their back next time, is it still important?
Sure.
- How long do you celebrate or sulk? In either case is there cake?
A couple days if I’m celebrating. Longer if I’m sulking. There could be cake, or maybe ice cream. Or margaritas.