People who are proud that they never vote

[pstokely]

Who are these people?

[LynneSin]

1. Meg Whitman

She hasn't voted in 28 elections.

[joeybee12]

3. Beat me to it!

She's the worst offender.

[Johonny]

15. +1

[madmax]

2. My jack off brother in law

and it's a good thing. He's a Republican small businessman. His homepage - Drudge Report. Source of news Wall Street Journal, NYT, and Faux Noise. Thinks Krauthammr is an oracle. Better he stays out of it.

Doesn't want to serve jury duty so he's never registered.

[spanone]

5. and probably considers himself a true patriot...

[madmax]

10. Nah, with him it's all about the Benjamin's

When he was draft age he was considering Canada to avoid Vietnam. He's really a good man but, he's an asshole, LOL.

He's socially liberal, agnostic, and my youngest brother in law is gay. He's not of the God, guns and Gay crowd. He's a rabid Capitalist and Free Market guy.

[LynneSin]

6. Do people know that voter registration has NOTHING to do with Jury Duty

Biggest misconception out there. If he doesn't want to get on Jury Duty tell him to give up his driver's license.

[madmax]

12. I didn't know that either.

Learn something new everyday on DU. Thanks Lynne

[hendo]

18. Every law-abiding citizen should vote

whether we agree with their political positions or not. After all, that is the basis of our democracy.

[MattyGroves]

4. Keith Olbermann was stating in 2008 that he doesn't vote

The reason given was a joke though as he claimed he needed to remain impartial as a journalist.

The last time I looked at his show I couldn't see the impartiality anywhere in sight so Keith is basically full of crap.

[Winterblues]

14. I see impartiality

I recognize his main concerns that he fights for and I see him go after Democrats the exact same way he goes after Republicans if they fight against what he feels is important, such as Health care. I saw him hammer Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln day after day over the Health care debate. It just so happens that most of his beliefs are Liberal, so he supports those that support his beliefs and hammers those that do not and that includes Obama....I have heard him go after Obama more than once.. To me that is as close to being impartial and still caring about your country as one can come...No one on the face of the earth is truly impartial... Everyone has some belief they follow..

[brewens]

21. I don't believe Keith has ever been busted for lying. He's been

accused of it on matters of opinion but never the stone cold busts that you see Limbaugh, O'Reilly and the rest caught on. Like when they say something, deny saying it and then we see the absolute proof on Keith's show or Media Matters.

[hendo]

17. Not voting for a sense impartiality is a load of BS!

If you don't vote you have no right to complain.

[DrDan]

7. Carly

Officials in Morris County, N.J., said records show she registered to vote there in 1997 but did not vote in a single election and was dropped from the voter rolls in 2005 as inactive.

Before that, Fiorina lived in Montgomery County, Md., where the registrar's office said they reviewed state databases and found no listing of Fiorina's voter registration.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/carly-fiorina-has-spotty-voting-record

[JonLP24]

8. I think George Carlin said so at one time

Not sure if he was proud about or if he was even serious about it.

[stuntcat]

23. yes

I remember hearing that from him too.

Now that we can choose For or Against the environment I can't excuse people for not caring enough to vote anymore.

(edit.. I love Carlin though, mostly)

[NYC Liberal]

9. There are people who believe the system is corrupt to the core and that

participating in it only serves to legitimize that.

I don't subscribe to that by any stretch of the imagination, but there are people who do.

[SharonAnn]

11. Mark Twain - "It only encourages them"

[ecstatic]

13. Jehovah's Witnesses?

:shrug:

[aikoaiko]

16. I know a couple of lefties who don't vote because Ds and Rs are essentially the same.

Not voting against Bush in 2004 and McCain in 2008 was really challenging to them.

[treestar]

25. One would think they could at least vote for a third party

To give that third party some sort of showing - they are shooting themselves in the foot there. There must be some third party, Green, Socialist, they believe in. I can respect that more than just not voting.

[aikoaiko]

26. I think they weren't interested in third party candidates because of the futility in the short term.

...and some are anarchists who oppose the voting scheme on principle.

I agree, though, I begged them to vote.

[lonestarnot]

19. Pride, huberis, ignorance, yeah they usually are found in the same package.

[littlewolf]

20. I tell folks who don't vote - they have no right to complain ....

[Blue_Tires]

22. I knew a LOT of them in my community as a college student

in fact, I was one of a small circle of my friends who voted regularly, and the voting place was actually set up ON-CAMPUS...

For the record, there are few things worse than some firebrand, pseudo-intellectual, black nationalist, quasi-revolutionary community activist who honestly thinks the best way of fighting the powers that be is by NOT VOTING and ridiculing the ones who do:grr: :puke: :mad: :banghead:

[treestar]

24. I've met a few

It is to them a sign they are above it all. Better than the rest of us, above politics.