today is the day

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Timothy Hildred wrote:
>
>> for voting! just a friendly reminder not to let the forces of idiocy
>> position their mascot above us in triumph.
>
> I wish I could.  I discovered too late that if you buy a house and 
> _then_ become a citizen that the city's voter roll is not 
> automatically updated (even though the federal one is).  Since I 
> discovered this after the roll had closed for this election I am 
> unable to vote.
>
> So I'm disenfranchied in Australia because I've been gone too long, 
> and now I'm disenfranchied here too :)
>
> Well at least the federal roll should have my name.. but I should 
> check...
>
>
You don't have to own property to vote.  As soon as you became a citizen 
you were eligible.

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