VOTE

[Dialectic]

Get the fuck out there and VOTE!!!

http://www.leastlikely.com/seethemovie.html

Link courtesy Samurai Jack.

[SamuraiJack]

Vote to support an American movie with good-looking, English-speaking, Asian American actors, and if you live in the States, vote Bush out of office!

[Dialectic]

On a happier note:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041004/lf_afp/us_vote_registration_041004171136

Americans are signing up to vote in record numbers: report

Mon Oct 4, 1:11 PM ET

NEW YORK (AFP) - Americans are registering to vote in record numbers ahead of the November 2 election, a report said.

[Cute photo of an Asian kid and his mom registering to vote. Yahoo's caption reads "Americans are registering to vote in record numbers ahead of the November 2 election, a report said. Eight-year-old David Luu helps his mother, Hui Zhang, vote in March 2004(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)"]

Monday is the deadline for registering to vote in some of the crucial swing states -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Florida -- as well as 12 other states, the The New York Times said.

Voter registration is a local affair in the United States, conducted with different rules and deadlines in cities and counties across the country. Voters do not need to re-register unless they have moved.

So while it is impossible to tally the number of new voters nationwide, or to predict whether they will actually vote, something is clearly afoot this year, as the United States wages a messy war in Iraq (news - web sites), after the worst terror attacks in US history and the vote recount fiasco four years ago.

"Everything we're seeing is that there has been a tremendous increase in voter registration," Kay Maxwell of the League of Women Voters told the Times.

"In the past, we've been enthused about what appeared to be a large number of new voters, but this does seem to be at an entirely different level."

Election officials around the country are hiring temporary workers, adding equipment and working around the clock to process a flood of registration cards, the report said.

Said an election official in the midwestern city of St. Louis, Missouri: "We are moving toward having the largest number of registered voters in the history of St. Louis County."

In Tallahassee, Florida, epicenter of the 2000 vote recount, the number of registrations is up 20 percent since the presidential primary in March.

In Cleveland, Ohio, a wave of 230,000 new registrations is more than double the number recorded ahead of the last presidential election.

The rate of new registrations is triple what it was in 2000 in the southwestern city of Las Vegas.

Election officials say nonpartisan community groups and Democratic activist groups are mostly behind the registration push, and that huge gains are being made in low-income and minority areas. The pace is slower in rural areas and non-swing states.

The Times reported last week that Democrats had far outpaced Republicans in efforts to register new voters in two key US states, after conducting county-by-county analysis of registration data in Ohio and Florida.

This grass-roots accomplishment could clinch the presidential race if the effort bears out nationwide and if the new voters go to the polls on November 2.

[missmel]

you can register at www.rockthevote.com and they have links to absentee ballots and stuff for the college kids

[Taliesin Stormheller]

Damn I wish I was 18 so I could vote...

[xian]

By the way, if you are not working on Election Tuesday, for the love of God, get out and run votes!

What, you may ask, is "running votes"? Basically, we get a list of a group of registered voters who haven't voted a lot (first-timers, ones who haven't voted in every election since they registered) and who are a target of whatever action group we are cooperating with (like Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, etc.). Then you go door to door with a cell phone full of numbers for drivers. You ask people if they've voted and if not, you ask them if they need a ride to the polls. Then you hook that up. (Obviously, you can't be partisen while you are doing this stuff, but let's face it, if everyone in the country voted, there wouldn't be a Republican party and the Democrats would be struggling.)

Go Representative Republic! Fuck this Oligarchal shit!

If you want to get involved with this, you'll have to find a group in your area. I can't imagine there's not a ton of people in LA or NYC or whereever. Just look up one of the Asian American activism groups in town, or if that fails, I'm sure the Urban League knows what's up.

[cattygurl]

DAMMIT! I'm working.... ARGH. I know one of my friends isn't working... maybe I can hook him up a group, since he's politically active.

[xian]

DAMMIT! I'm working.... ARGH. I know one of my friends isn't working... maybe I can hook him up a group, since he's politically active.

Do it! Do it! Go peer pressure!
After all, if you couldn't jump off of a bridge, wouldn't you want your friends to do so in your place?

[cattygurl]

looking online... can't seem to find one in the San Diego area.

Hmmm...

Nah, the guy owes me a favor. He can pay it off by doing this for me.

MFWAFWAFWA

[xian]

Try the SD Indy Media Center:
SDIMC
2552 K Street
San Diego, CA 92102
Phone: (619) 233-5002
E-mail: info@sdimc.org

They probably could telling you which groups are running.

[cattygurl]

Callin' 'em right now.

Thanks!