adventures in voter registration, part the last -- I promise.

[sistawendy]

Jehovah's Witnesses don't vote.

a) That's a lowdown shame. I could have gone all day without learning that.
b) I'm proud to be an agent of karma for going to their house and annoying them.

My neighborhood is a lot weirder than I ever would have guessed. This makes me happy, mostly.

Doors knocked: about 180. Voters registered: 4. Le sigh.

Comments

[cow.livejournal.com]

I've seen a lot of people out in Seattle doing voter registration, too. (I hope this is why you're getting so few--most have already registered...)

I always try to encourage these people, because I really appreciate what they're doing. I was crossing 5th Avenue down by the Westin Sunday morning and someone stopped me, asking if I was registered at my current address; I said I was, but please keep up the good work, etc.

So yeah, keep on keepin' on. :D

(And that is sad about the Jehovah's Witnesses . . . is it a "don't get involved in the world" sort of thing?)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

is it a "don't get involved in the world" sort of thing?

That's my guess: a novel interpretation of "render unto Caesar".

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it applies to non-profits. The JWs are a big, established group, so I'd think they'd be too smart or too cautious to get this wrong.

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

A Jehovah's Witness left a long message on our machine this week, essentially inviting us to their church. Shouldn't this fall under the "Do Not Call Registry"?

[seven-veils.livejournal.com]

The "Do Not Call Registry" only applies to commercial businesses, churchs, non-profits, and political parties, etc are exempt and can call all they want. Atleast that's what they said on the news last night.

Evil thoughts

[serpentmoon.livejournal.com]

I'm proud to be an agent of karma for going to their house and annoying them.

Yeah. Now, thanks to you I am getting evil thoughts of coordinating people to go to JW's homes each week to register them to vote. We could send a different person each week.

But I would hate to bother the ones who don't bother us.

:)

[tmfkan64.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm a bad evil person... but isn't the non-voting status of Jehovah's Witnesses a good thing? ;-)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

That occurred to me, but you never know, do you?