Voter Registration Drive
NeighborWorks Lincoln will be conducting a series of voter registration drives throughout 2009. Voter drives are scheduled to be held in conjunction with various community events. Please look for a voter registration booth at your community event.Voters can pick up registration applications to take with them for return to the City Registrar's office, or they can fill them out at the event. Staff will deliver the completed registration forms to the Registrar's office.
Also, for more information and registration application forms go to http://www.lancaster.ne.gov/cnty/election/
- Five Reasons Why You Should Vote
You control the Electoral College. The Electoral College is a controversial mechanism of presidential elections that was created by the framers of the U.S. Constitution as a compromise for the presidential election process. At the time, some politicians believed a purely popular election was too reckless, while others objected to giving Congress the power to select the president. The compromise was to set up an Electoral College system that allowed voters to vote for electors, who would then cast their votes for candidates, a system described in Article II, section 1 of the Constitution.
It is your future.
Think about the future and the world we will "inherit". Think about the issues that are near and dear to your heart on a personal level. Don't vote and you effectively kiss away your ability to have any influence as to how these issues play out.
The only way democracy works is if citizens are active participants.
A government by the people, for the people just can't work without the people. This is a simple fact. Like a car without an engine, or a computer without a hard drive, a democracy without voters is just a shell and has no power. While it is easy to say "one vote doesn't make a difference" the reality is that every vote counts. Also you have to remember that as an individual your vote may seem to be little more than a whisper but when your vote is combined with the votes of others who share your views it becomes a voice and the more like-voters there are the louder that voice grows. So go vote.
If you don't vote you really have no right to complain about government decisions you don't like.
If there is one thing that is really annoying is the endless ramblings on the bad political policy of a current government spewing from the mouths of eligible voters who never bothered to cast a ballot. If you don't vote it is like saying you don't care how your country is run, so if you don't care where do you get the idea that you can complain when something happens that you don't like? If you don't vote you really have no right complaining about anything the government does. Exercise your right to vote.
Bottom line: you should vote because you can.
Voting is a tremendous gift. Believe it or not, people in other countries actually fight and even die for this right; a right that so many people in democratic nations take for granted. You should vote because you can.