Fingers crossed for the future of the USA
Nov. 6th, 2006 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beelikejAccording to dutch journalist Reinout van Wagtendonk in his weekly comment from the USA: only 50% of people register to vote and out of these registered voters, only 50% actually show up to vote.
This makes me sad. Because to me that sounds like people just gave up on democracy :-(
I don't know how complicated the registering-process is. In the Netherlands you are registered at birth and from your eighteenth birthday on, you will receive an invitation to vote. On November 22 we will elect a new government, I expect about 80-90% of the population will cast a vote.
Please vote if you can. I know you don't have much choice with only two (three?) parties, but this is your chance to be heard. Good luck!
This message was brought to you by BeeLikeJ who will go back to trivial posts tomorrow;)
This makes me sad. Because to me that sounds like people just gave up on democracy :-(
I don't know how complicated the registering-process is. In the Netherlands you are registered at birth and from your eighteenth birthday on, you will receive an invitation to vote. On November 22 we will elect a new government, I expect about 80-90% of the population will cast a vote.
Please vote if you can. I know you don't have much choice with only two (three?) parties, but this is your chance to be heard. Good luck!
This message was brought to you by BeeLikeJ who will go back to trivial posts tomorrow;)