I'll be a legal adult, which qualifies me to enter the sphere of jury duty, voting and purchasing liquid White-Out.
This Article originally appeared on VICE US.
A survey of 4,000 service people, released last week by the Military Times, revealed strong loyalty to the president: 72% of those on active duty would vote for him, and 17% would vote for Kerry.
Re "Florida Court Backs Recount; Bush Appealing to U.S. Justices" (front page, Dec. 9) and "Supreme Court, Split 5-4, Halts Florida Count in Blow to Gore" (front page, Dec. 10): I have spent most of my life believing that I had the duty to vote in national elections and that my vote was important.
Despite participants reporting a civic duty to vote, a number of responses explaining abstention from voting indicated a lack of social capital (Behan 2012).
"Citizens have the duty to vote and participate in our democracy, and restrictive voting laws like Texas's have no place in the 21st century".
Here are two developments: Vince Cable, the business secretary, announced tonight that has a "duty" to vote in favour of the rise in tuition fees in next Thursday's vote in the House of Commons.
Latino voters, immigrants, Asian-Americans, younger people, pro-union and pro-faith voters -- and anyone who cares about civil rights, human rights, and labor rights -- have a duty to vote this November on behalf of those who do not have the right to vote and who, if the GOP takes over, may not be able to for many, many years to come.
Perhaps the DPJ will be prodded by a sense of duty to vote sooner.
But they admitted that they felt it was their duty to vote anyway.
