In case you somehow forgot in the midst of all the ads, videos, articles, status updates, and tweets, today is Election Day. And although Jenessa already beat me to it, I thought I would talk about it for a bit.
As I was walking through the SCC, I passed students entering the polling place at Edmunds Ballroom. I, unfortunately, had to keep walking, because I somehow managed to mess up my registration form and then neglected to check my mailbox for a couple of weeks, leaving me no time to send in a revised form. (College lesson #72: Check your mail fairly regularly.) My sponsor did try to comfort me with the fact that California isn’t exactly a swing state, but I am still disappointed I am not able to vote. Coming from Australia, where voting is mandatory and you are fined for not doing so, I find it interesting that under two-thirds of the country actually votes in the Presidential Elections. Though I don’t think that enforcing voting this way is necessarily the best policy (the amount of teenagers I hear who vote for them just because they think it would be hilarious makes me sad), it at least gets people into the voting booths. I would hope that at a school such as Pomona, everyone who is capable of filling out a simple registration form without making a stupid mistake can vote, does.