Bike the Vote!

[Bad JuJu]

I just read this in the Florida Bicycling Association's newsletter, and it seems like a great idea:
In less than two weeks, you will have an opportunity to vote. I know that your voting place is in your neighborhood so I would like to encourage you to exercise your rights and exercise while doing it. The MTV crowd talks about their "rock the vote" effort, I will call mine "walk or bike the vote!" If they can "run" for the office we can walk or bike to put them there.
(From Tim Lane, Iowa Department of Health, author of the daily FITNET)

This is a great idea in general, but especially for folks like me who generally live too far away from work, school, grocery shopping to ride their bikes there (my nearest grocery store is 11 dangerous miles away, and work is twice as far). I can't wait to ride my bike to the local polling place.

I also think it would be good for other voters to see a bunch of cyclists showing up--on their bikes--to vote, kind of a practical demonstration of "I ride a bike, and I vote."

[light_sabe_r]

Bicycle QLD suggested we do that over here for our State Parliament elections a few months ago. (COMPULSARY voting)

The even went a step further and Suggested that if you didn't know who to vote for, vote for the political party who offer to mind your bike while you voted.

[Bad JuJu]

vote for the political party who offer to mind your bike while you voted.

They'd get my vote.

[BeeLady]

Great idea juju - will ride my bike to my polling site.

[DebW]

I've done that. But the polling place is in a gymnasium where I can't walk on the pretty wood floor in my cleats. So I have to vote in my socks.

[Fredwina]

Great idea, but what about those of us who are "Permanent Absentees" (Califronian for Voting by mail?)

[spokewench]

Bike your vote to the post office!

I always, or almost always, bike my vote - since the polling place is on my way to work on my bike

[Trek420]

Bump. It's still dark early here so I'm taking a half day off this Super Tuesday. If the weather's not abysmal I'll ride to work then bike to vote. If it is abysmal I'll still bike to vote once back home, the polling place is only a couple blocks from here.

I don't care who or what you vote for (well, I kinda do) but just VOTE

[KnottedYet]

Our primary is a while yet.

I'll likely bike or walk, this one isn't being done by mail-in ballot, which bugs me. (I don't like the Diebold machines. I don't trust them. I want a paper ballot! In one of our Diebold-using counties here in WA, 104% of registered voters voted for one particular candidate last election. Hmmmm.)

VOTE VOTE VOTE, even though your vote won't count cuz the election is rigged!

[Trek420]

104% Wow, that's impressive. Way to get the vote out, unidentified candidate