Election night?

[icarus]

A poll! A poll! My kingdom for a poll!

What will you be doing election day next week?

Includes options for actual non-US citizens.

Wish you could vote in the *@*!@&!!! US elections? (I read at least one Australian piece that said everyone impacted by the US should be allowed to vote, hee.)

Well. Now you can.

Comments

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

everyone impacted by the US should be allowed to vote

Ha! I totally agree with that!

I think it would be cool if there was a scheme where every vote that an American doesn't choose to cast should be given to someone living where the US policies are currently impacting through military or monetary might and those people, who are directly influenced by the US, get to have a voice in the election process for all the Americans who can't be bothered.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've learned recently that the long-held belief that Americans don't vote is erroneous.

Apparently what's really happened is that more and more people live in the US who are ineligible to vote. The statistics that show a relatively low percentage of Americans vote look only at total population, whether that population is allowed to vote or not.

They don't take into account the massive numbers of people who've been busted with felonies (largely drug related mandatory sentences since the 80s) who've had their rights to vote removed.

Then the foreigners living in the US has gone from 1% of the total population in 1972 to 8% of the population today. In California alone 20% of the population is ineligible to vote.

Once you take "eligible voters" into account, the percentage of Americans who vote shoots up. It's never gone below the percentages of 40 years ago.