Something i have pondered a lot over the years is if i should vote.
For most of my life, i have not been registered to vote anywhere. This is because i left the country of my birth as a child, so never registered there on turning 18. I was never a citizen of anywhere else until i moved to Canada. But shortly after i got my Canadian citizenship, i moved again, so haven't voted there either.
A few years back i did vote for the first time in my life, in a local election in Berlin, where they allow city residents (even if they are not citizens) to vote. I voted for a fringe candidate that had no chance of winning, because i figured for the first time i voted i'd at least like to get my real opinion recorded.
Now i am back in Canada again, i have been thinking of finally registering. It's not because there is an election coming up, but thanks to the American election pretty much all the media everywhere keeps talking about voting, so it's on my mind.
Anyway, my question for folks here is how do you feel about voting while away from your "home" address? Are you registered in whatever state of your driver's license or your friend's house where your mail goes? Do you only vote on certain levels (e.g. national) and not on others (e.g. local)? I can understand not wanting to vote at all as a drifter, since that's how i've lived most of my life, but do some people still do it anyway? I did find some 10-year-old threads about this, but i wonder if people's opinons have changed.
For most of my life, i have not been registered to vote anywhere. This is because i left the country of my birth as a child, so never registered there on turning 18. I was never a citizen of anywhere else until i moved to Canada. But shortly after i got my Canadian citizenship, i moved again, so haven't voted there either.
A few years back i did vote for the first time in my life, in a local election in Berlin, where they allow city residents (even if they are not citizens) to vote. I voted for a fringe candidate that had no chance of winning, because i figured for the first time i voted i'd at least like to get my real opinion recorded.
Now i am back in Canada again, i have been thinking of finally registering. It's not because there is an election coming up, but thanks to the American election pretty much all the media everywhere keeps talking about voting, so it's on my mind.
Anyway, my question for folks here is how do you feel about voting while away from your "home" address? Are you registered in whatever state of your driver's license or your friend's house where your mail goes? Do you only vote on certain levels (e.g. national) and not on others (e.g. local)? I can understand not wanting to vote at all as a drifter, since that's how i've lived most of my life, but do some people still do it anyway? I did find some 10-year-old threads about this, but i wonder if people's opinons have changed.