Okay, guys, sounds like your voter registration system is fine, then. I was obviously misinformed by someone about that...some articles I read awhile back.

I think, then, that the major thing reducing the number of people who vote is simply discouragement, and the feeling that it won't make any difference if they do. That is certainly the case in Canada.

I frankly don't know what to do about it. People are maybe better off when they are still innocent and actually believe that the system works as it is supposed to, like they were told in grade school. What childlike faith. I have almost no confidence that my vote will achieve anything useful at the national level in this country, and I would have even less confidence of it in the USA. Still, I do usually vote...but with a sense of dispirited resignation to the seemingly inevitable betrayal.

- LH