# Poll: Americans: Did/will you vote? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123 "2012-11-06T18:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/21 "2012-11-06T22:54:53Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Yep. Great turnout at our precinct, one of the highest I’ve ever seen. Apparently the Silent Conservative Majority isn’t gonna be silent this time around. Maybe you just think they’re voting their talk. Not always the same as voting one’s conscience. ---
**Author:** ![thursday\_next](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@thursday\_next](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thursday_next)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/22 "2012-11-06T23:09:31Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Yep. Great turnout at our precinct, one of the highest I’ve ever seen. Apparently the Silent Conservative Majority isn’t gonna be silent this time around. My vote for president canceled out yours! 😃 Of course, the rest of my families’ votes overwhelmed mine and this doesn’t take into account the electoral college who doesn’t care how any of us vote. … Now I’m sad. I voted by mail and darn it made studying in college look like nothing, and I literally had to be dragged away from my studying. On the one hand there were some giggles, where I was all is this person for real? There was also a lot of I have to choose one of these assholes? People who didn’t have anything up on the web (facebook doesn’t count) drove me crazy. Tell me what you think, why I should vote for you, ect. I know you’re probably lying to me, but tell me something about yourself. Ahh, it felt good to get that out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/23 "2012-11-06T23:12:22Z")
I’ve never voted. ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2012, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/24 "2012-11-06T23:14:19Z")
I live overseas, but I registered for an absentee ballot which has not arrived yet. I will vote, no matter what the actual outcome, when it arrives. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/25 "2012-11-07T01:58:02Z")
Mailed my ballot in on October 1. ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/26 "2012-11-07T02:15:50Z")
Absentee a week ago. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/27 "2012-11-07T03:17:29Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Not always the same as voting one’s conscience. Have you any idea how much I want to post, “He keeps using that word…”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/28 "2012-11-07T03:23:19Z")
Absentee two weeks ago from overseas. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123/29 "2012-11-07T03:34:42Z")
Not practical: I’ve moved six times in the past six months, and the form that I thought I filled out to change my voter registration a month and a half ago, combined with the form I thought I got in the mail to confirm it, turn out not to have worked as well as I would have liked: I took a closer look at the form letter I got last week and rather than saying “Yes, we have updated your record and you’re good to go”, instead, it was more like “dude… stop moving… wtf…” Ironically, I’m going to be moving again in just a few more months… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-americans-did-will-you-vote/640123.md?page=1)