> I can't believe that you don't think voting is important! How will you ever take ownership of your own country if you don't take advantage of this privelege?

How will I if I do? If you're talking about electoral voting, there are no significant non-landslide elections where I live. My vote is 100% irrelevant on all presidential and federal/state legislative elections. Local elections? Honestly, I don't care WHO the registrar of deeds is. I haven't noticed deeds being registered badly of late, so I guess the guy's doing a fine job.

If you're talking about voting on local ballot "questions," they're basically useless. Perhaps if anything ever came up that was worth voting on, sure. But I think I'll pass on the opportunity to approve a recommendation to the state legislature that it consider a vote on whether or not to lower the state income tax by .15% like we pass every year.

> Just so you know, if you don't vote (and are able to) you better not be complaining about how the country is being run!!! You don't have any right to complain!

Well that's a wonderfully narrow-minded and uninformed attitude. Just so you know, the first amendment applies to people who don't vote just as neatly as it applies to those who do. I'm sorry, but I have a very clearly spelled out right to complain.

Also note that extra exclamation points doesn't make you look extra smart. One is plenty.