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Nope, not registered and won't be.

We're not allowed to vote in my state, Holland ;)

It's kind of funny, there's tons of 'No on 8' sign-holders and such all around the Berkeley campus and while I agree I can't help but think that they're preaching to the choir (I mean, we're college students, at a campus known for being the liberalist of the liberal, of the relatively few people who are hard-line 'Yes on 8,' how many are going to be swayed by a simple sign?). I was thinking that their efforts would be better placed where there are 'Yes on 8' signs lining the streets. I have seen literally none here.

And the Gregoire ads weren't insanely annoying?

You obviously have the right from a freedom of speech perspective. It just makes you a hypocrite:

"I am unsatisfied with the way things are yet I did nothing to change them."

"I'm not a US citizen, and yet as the President of the United States of America is sometimes referred to as 'The Leader of the Free World', and being nominally part of that 'free world', I am happy to see so many of you taking your responsibilities seriously. Thank you, from the United Kingdom (or at least the small apartment in east London where I live :D)."

If this is true, which it might be, then a monkey has been running the free world for the last 8 years. No wonder the world is so screwed up right now.

Everyone should vote. There is no excuse for not voting. Thousands and maybe millions of people have died defending your and others right to vote.

[quote=Admiral Placeholder]I would just like to take a break from the debate about voting here to say:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT.[/quote


2nd that wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot

Simple fact.

If you don't vote, keep your mouth shut for the next 4 years as you have no ground to stand on. You are not allowed an opinion if you were too ignorant to vote.

You-know-who FOR THE WIN!!!! :)

Several people responded along these lines. Now, I'm not an American citizen, but I am interested in the outcome.

In my opinion, by not voting at all, you make no statement whatsoever. You chose to be ignored by your political leaders. If you like neither of the main candidates, why don't you write someone else or yourself on the slip? And I don't mean something like "Kermit the Frog" that will get thrown out as invalid, but a real person. Because even with that, you will send the message that you don't like either candidate. If a lot of people did this, the result would not be:
Obama 52% - McCain 47% - Others 1%
but maybe
Obama 47% - McCain 42% - Others 11%

Wouldn't that also send a strong message to the people that get voted in the end, even if it does not change the result per se? By not voting at all, you get dominated by people that DO vote!

According to CNN.com, around 115M votes have been counted. The US has an adult population of 230M (going by wikipedia.org). So just about half of the people that could vote, actually did. I presume that those voters that stayed at home would likely have voted for neither candidate (like cafeen), or Obama. Because older people vote more and older people are more likely to vote McCain (going on statistics on CNN.com).

Just think about this for a moment when the next elections come around...

People voted jiggeryqua down for this, probably without quite understanding that...well, yes, complaining is what we Brits do best. Just humour (humor?) us and don't be too offended.

I wish I could have voted. Then again, I just wish I had a realistic chance of moving to the US, but we're not even allowed to enter the green card lottery (see? We just like to complain ;).