Comments on: 20 Million Single Women Didn’t Vote in 2004 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:54:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Donald O'Bloggin http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3127 Donald O'Bloggin Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:41:30 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3127 I'm firmly of the belief that not voting in a majority of elections should revoke ones citizenship. <br/><br/>Limit elections to 2 days a year, make November elections a national holidays, and if you don't vote for a few years, pick the country of your desired deportation.<br/><br/>And before anyone says "I don't support any of the candidates" or "I object to the system", that's what going to the polls and casting a blank ballot is for. I’m firmly of the belief that not voting in a majority of elections should revoke ones citizenship.

Limit elections to 2 days a year, make November elections a national holidays, and if you don’t vote for a few years, pick the country of your desired deportation.

And before anyone says “I don’t support any of the candidates” or “I object to the system”, that’s what going to the polls and casting a blank ballot is for.

]]> By: Fr. Damocles http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3131 Fr. Damocles Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:52:13 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3131 It's a travesty that election day isn't a national holiday. We can't even shut down the capitalist machine for just one day so that the disenfranchised can vote. But that's probably the point. It’s a travesty that election day isn’t a national holiday. We can’t even shut down the capitalist machine for just one day so that the disenfranchised can vote. But that’s probably the point.

]]> By: adrien-alice http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3130 adrien-alice Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:58:34 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3130 And also, offer to walk the walk: babysit, drive someone to vote or--and this is still possible in KY so probably other places--if you can't get to the poles because of legitimate work-related issues: Vote early. In KY (not known as a bastion of enfranchisement), you even vote on a real (non-absentee) ballot.<br/><br/>Maybe I'm preaching to the converted, but if you've got some waverers, it's worth offering a hand. <br/><br/>Because yeah, when I think of all the time Susan B did in jail and never had a vote of hers counted...I can't deal with the guilt that I lack her determination. And also, offer to walk the walk: babysit, drive someone to vote or–and this is still possible in KY so probably other places–if you can’t get to the poles because of legitimate work-related issues: Vote early. In KY (not known as a bastion of enfranchisement), you even vote on a real (non-absentee) ballot.

Maybe I’m preaching to the converted, but if you’ve got some waverers, it’s worth offering a hand.

Because yeah, when I think of all the time Susan B did in jail and never had a vote of hers counted…I can’t deal with the guilt that I lack her determination.

]]> By: Doug Muder http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3129 Doug Muder Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:36:40 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3129 I think those single women working three jobs and raising kids are precisely the ones we hope vote.<br/><br/>And Fausto: Language morphs. Or, as Calvin told Hobbes: "Verbing weirds language." I think those single women working three jobs and raising kids are precisely the ones we hope vote.

And Fausto: Language morphs. Or, as Calvin told Hobbes: “Verbing weirds language.”

]]> By: fausto http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3128 fausto Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:38:38 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3128 <i>[Thanks to PeaceBang reader Suzanah who wrote to me all the way from PRAGUE to pimp these videos]</i><br/><br/>Um, I know you know better, but I want to mention that "pimp" is a noun. [Thanks to PeaceBang reader Suzanah who wrote to me all the way from PRAGUE to pimp these videos]

Um, I know you know better, but I want to mention that “pimp” is a noun.

]]> By: All Points http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3126 All Points Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:23:12 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2006/10/27/20-million-single-women-didnt-vote-in-2004/#comment-3126 Um, I know you know better, but you might want to mention that some of those twenty million single women didn't vote because they were working two or three minimum wage jobs inorder to support their children. Um, I know you know better, but you might want to mention that some of those twenty million single women didn’t vote because they were working two or three minimum wage jobs inorder to support their children.

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