Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The main problem with voting in the US when you live abroad is that you have to conduct the procedure through the county where you last lived in the US--in my case Mercer County, NJ. When I last voted, in 2004, I had to request a ballot by fax, then they sent it to me by post and I had to mail it back to them. In this day and age this is simply absurd. If they are unwilling or unable to provide voting online, at a minimum it should be possible to vote at a US Consulate--that is what most other countries do. I would happily drive to Valencia (the nearest US Consulate for me), around 175 km, to exercise my civic duty. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:27 AM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > Nathan, > > We voted from Germany back in 2008. We filed ahead of time and had the > ballots sent to our German hosts house, and then did our voting and sent > them out from there. Fairly easy, I thought. > > gene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 2:07:38 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMGs: visual thinking > > I am in lucky position of being able to vote in 3 countries: the US > (presidential elections only), Poland (all elections) and Spain (local > elections). I certainly vote in all Polish and Spanish elections (we have > interesting local elections here in the Valencia region next year, and > there are LOTS of corrupt politicians to kick out). I vote in US elections > only when it is close in the state where I can vote (NJ, my last residence > there), but usually it is not worth the effort since the Democrats almost > always carry the state by a comfortable margin, so my vote does not make > any difference--and the process of casting a US ballot from abroad is > truly painful. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > YNWA > > > > > > On Nov 11, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> The reason why I asked that is from my experience in India, most >> armchair experts do not vote. My personal view is that forfeits their >> right to pontificate about anything. I strongly support Brazil's >> system where voting is legally compulsory, and not doing so is a >> criminal offense. >> >> Incidentally, we have been having elections in one of our poorest and >> least educated states, Bihar, and till now (the voting is held on six >> days over a month in order to deploy police forces in sufficient >> numbers), despite Maoist threats of violence the voting has been >> around 55%. The interesting thing is that for the first time in living >> memory, the elections would probably favour the incumbent Chief >> Minister, Nitish Kumar, who again, for the first time in living memory >> has actually brought development to the state. Ranged against him are >> political parties who truly believe that educating the populace is >> dangerous as it will eat into their vote bank! >> >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at >>> gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Did all of you vote last time? >>>> >>> >>> >>> Two years ago, I did not vote in an election for millage renewal, and a >>> city >>> councilman. The favored one was my choice, and he won. I had to be >>> out of >>> town unexpectedly, otherwise I would have voted early. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> Sonny >>> http://sonc.com/look/ >>> Natchitoches, Louisiana >>> >>> USA >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >