I tried voting by mail... it's just not the same :)

I feel like a bona-fiddy priviledged citizen of US when I get up at o'dark:thirty to hit the polling place before work. (No lines then either.)

People who can't bother to call their local elections office, log on to their web site, or ask a buddy how to register to vote don't garner much sympathy from me. 'Taint that hard, and if they can't spend 5 minutes registering to vote, I think it unlikely they'd bother to vote anyway.

I wrestle with voter apathy, too. But then I see videos of places that are having their first election, or first election is however many years, and the folks are lined up and eager, even when sometimes it's dangerous or deadly to exercise the priviledge. No matter how bad our election system gets, at least we still have it, and the less we use it, the worse it'll get.

So I do my research and get up and go anyway. One more vote for democracy.