I want to scream and throw chairs through the windows. But somehow I control myself.

[struggle4progress]

We're in a workshop at a small statewide meeting with perhaps two hundred attendees

A few chairs away from me, a college student stands up to say he can't register to vote because he's a college student

He's confused about something. I don't know if he confused himself or if someone else deliberately confused him. And I don't know how many other students will hear this from him in coming days

But the workshop dynamics prevent me from correcting him immediately

I look for him at lunch but can't find him

Several hours pass

Finally I spot him leaving the building and follow him out

He really doesn't understand the rules. I try to set him straight, drag him over to my car, hand him some literature, give him several websites he can check for accurate information

And then I have to tell that the deadline for registering to vote in the primary was yesterday

He thanks me

I go back inside to the meeting

I really want to scream and throw chairs through the windows. But somehow I control myself

[Duckhunter935]

1. at least it is just the primary

[struggle4progress]

2. Unfortunately, I must say that down here some elections are effectively decided by the primary vote

[RobertEarl]

3. Now you know how some of us feel

For years we fought to get paper ballots and we were called crazy.

Now we have some paper ballots but they may still not be counted correctly by the republican owned voting machines.

[octoberlib]

4. Either he was confused or the Republicans

are disseminating propaganda around college campuses in preparation for the mid-terms. It's a frustrating situation, either way.

[defacto7]

5. We should never underestimate

the power of misinformation.

[Corruption Inc]

6. "Hand him some literature"

Ewwwwwww...

[struggle4progress]

7. Honestly, I only put that part into my story for shock value

I find little tidbits that gratuitously nauseate readers can really help move a narrative along

[treestar]

8. Ignorance can be frustrating

I wonder that the government cannot put up a campaign encouraging people to register.

Make it a normal civic duty. It can be. Because it happens to favor Democrats doesn't mean anything in that context.

School register 18 year old men for the draft. Why not register them all to vote when they turn 18?

[greytdemocrat]

9. Sounds like an idiot.

Perhaps it was just as well. You can only do so much.