Voting

[bluegoose]

I know that this has less to do with Scouting specifically, and more with adult citizenship, but I feel as though it is an important message. Today is the first tuesday after the first monday in November of an election year, so I encourage all of you out there to exercise the privilege and responsibility of voting.

 

Peace always

 

 

author's note-it is not my intent for this thread to turn into an argument over the merits of one candidate or another. thanks.

[Bob White]

What office do you hold in the troop?

[evmori]

Good reminder bluegoose. I plan on voting after work with my wife!

 

And I encourage all the member of this forum to exercise their right & vote today!

 

Ed Mori

Troop 1

1 Peter 4:10

[cubbingcarol]

Count me in on it. No pun intended. Can't wait to go vote when I take my little one to preschool. You would be surprised at the amount of people who don't vote. At the little nursing home where I work there are several people who don't vote at all. How sad. I couldn't wait until I turned 18 just to vote. America is awesome!!!! I want to keep it that way!

 

Carol

[EagleInKY]

I've already cast my vote this morning. I hope everyone else does the same. I'm always so dismayed by people who say that they just aren't interested.

[kenk]

My wife & I will vote after picking up our 8 & 9 year old kids from after-school Taekwondo. They are almost as excited to see us vote as we are to cast our votes.

 

My wife and I try to do our homework on local elections that most local people know little, if nothing, about. We've had lots of discussions at home, including the kids, about the candidates, what they represent, and why we're voting for each one.

 

Ignoring specifics about candidates and national issues, our biggest local concerns are:

 

ROADS (very nasty traffic congestion seemingly ignored by those who can improve it),

 

EDUCATION (schools saying they don't have enough money, and clearly try to make parents feel their pain), and

 

TAXES(they keep going up and up and up).

 

 

[NJCubScouter]

Um...

 

Bob, did your post "jump threads" somehow? It would have made sense in response to "Saitou," the Scout (apparently) who wants to oust his Scoutmaster. It does not quite fit in this thread in response to bluegoose, who wishes only that we all vote (and who, coincidently, answers your question in his "profile," but I don't think it's him who you were trying to ask.)

[ManassasEagle]

I lucked out, the H-O line only had 8 people in it - took about 10 minutes total. A-G got the shaft, must have been 50 people in that line.

[KoreaScouter]

We mailed our absentees from Hawaii to Michigan a couple of weeks ago. Since we're not Hawaii residents, I watch the local/state contests with some amusement. For example, I was surprised to learn that there's a clause in Hawaii's state Constitution regarding ballot propositions (there are 4 this year, including a "Megan's Law") that states if you don't check either "yes" or "no" on a ballot proposition, they count it as a "no", not as an "abstain". Considering the number of people who gloss over the propositions because they're not informed on them, it would seem impossible to get any of these things passed here with all the unintended "no" votes coming in. Go figure.

 

KS

[John-in-KC]

I voted at 7AM. I now get to be an iconoclast for the next two years

 

John

[bluegoose]

Bob White-

 

I am currently an Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 76, of Park Ridge, Illinois (Northwest Suburban Council, Blackhawk District.)

 

peace always

[torribug]

I waited til after the morning rush, but I did it! Short wait, considering last week's line to early vote was over 2 hours long! Obviously, I didn't feel like standing in that line. I would, however, have stood in line that long today if I HAD to, knowing it's my last chance!

[VentureScoutNY]

 

This was my first chance to vote in a Presidential Election. I am away at school, so I filled out my absentee ballot about 2 weeks ago and sent it home to NY. It makes me glad to think I could be apart of the election process.

 

YIS

[Proud Eagle]

I voted a little before 2:00 central time.

 

One other guy slipped in the door just ahead of me so I had to wait a few seconds while they found his name on the list.

 

Then they found my name, I showed them ID, signed the book, voted, got my sticker, and left. As I was pulling out of the parking lot an older couple showed up. Pretty slow going at that hour.

 

My parents on the other hand encountered a line out into the rain when they showed up a couple hours earlier, so they ran some erand and went back to find a much shorter line.

 

I have only missed one chance to vote, and it was for a primary.

[KoreaScouter]

I heard a great quote on the radio on my way to work this morning.

 

"There is only one word more powerful than 'president'; it is 'citizen'".

 

Pretty cool, huh?

 

KS