Here's a good one. So 4 years ago when I turned 18 I registered to vote (along with the Selective Service) thinking that this would allow me to participate in future elections. I was 1 month too young to vote in the 2000 election at the time. Well, as the story goes, I went to college for the next 4 years and completely did not notice that I never got anything in the mail for local elections at home. So now we've got this Big Ol' Election and I get all geared up to do my duty as a citizen of a democratic nation. But this time I notice that nothing came in the mail for me about the coming election. So I get on the horn with the city and lo and behold, I'm not in the system. I don't get it. Was I supposed to send in cereal box tops or proof of purchase with all that paperwork 4 years ago? And of course now it's too late to re-register and I'm forced to sit this one out. Fan-friggin-tastic. All that voting spirit gone to waste.

I'm wondering if the reason we've had such low voter turnout for the last however many years it's been, is because people thought they registered when actually they forget to send in the box tops too. (Or more likely, they didnt attempt to register because they feel one vote is insignificant and besides, everyone else is voting, so who cares).

So yeah. I'm a little irked that I'm warming the bench. But for those of you who can vote, go win one for the Gipper.