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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Yeah, but what if you had spent all of Monday/ Tuesday/Wednesday inside your house with the TVs and radios off and just forgot...and were supposed to be in London within the next two weeks for important business and couldn't go because you forgot to vote.
That would suck.
Over here, the days are set in advance, you can't possibly NOT know when the election is going to happen. If you happen to work on a sunday, they MUST let you not work on the morning or the afternoon. If you are going outside the country all you must do is justify and say you were outside the country, all you have to do is pick up a form over the post office, fill it up (30 seconds) and it's done. Of course it makes it very easy not to vote, but people here actually care, and agrees with the obligatory voting system.
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
The Majority of the states went to Bush, and the electoral college voted for Bush.
And what do you care. If the alleged popular vote had won Al Gorewould be president.
Think about that for just a minute.
LOL, oh God you gotta be kidding me, so you'd rather put Bush on the job, even tough the majority didn't want him? Hmmnn.. I wonder how Saddan Hussein got HIS job as Iraq dictator...
I'm not so familiar with north american history, but wasn't the electoral college system created so that poor people, being the majority, wouldn't be able to decide who the president was, just in case thet decided to vote for someone the powerful people didn't want they to vote for?