One small step towards divorcing that country done

[kareina]

 Today David sent me a photo of an envelope from the Alaska Elections people, and wondered why I haven't changed my address with them. So I looked at their web page and found a "cancle your voter registration " button faster than I found a way to update my address, so I cancled it. Can't do the next step without a job, and even after I get one it will take time before I feel I can spare so much money, but it never felt any use to be registered in Alaska, anyway, given that the presidential election results are uaually announced before the polls in Alaska even close, and Alaska has never made a difference to the results.

Comments

[redbird]

My mother maintains her voter registration in New York, and usually votes, but I'm not sure how much of the reason is that she expects her vote to matter in any specific election, and how much is that she would feel weird not voting. The last time it came up, I told her that I agreed it was OK for her to sit out a primary when the overseas-voting process was being more difficult than usual.

I vote the locals...

[learnteach]

We had a school bond bill (passed, 6K versus 4K out of 120K possible voters) and a state senator due to politics. It's the local elections I care about now...but you're not there, and haven't been. More time to look at cool rocks!

Re: I vote the locals...

[kareina]

Yah, I vote in my local elections, and in the Swedish national, and will not only vote in the upcoming EU election, I am even working the polls. But it isn't really right for someone who hasn't lived in Alaska since May of 2000 to be helping them decide local issues.