Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp

WTOP ^ | 08/18/18 | Max Smith

[Simon Green]

Vote or die.” Unless, it’s too hard to find a stamp.

A Fairfax County focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to be a foreign concept to them.

“One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps,” Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.

“That seems to be like a hump that they can’t get across.”

[Simon Green]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the future leaders of our country.

[ClearCase_guy]

They can’t ask Google?

[Mr. Jeeves]

This sounds silly, but we have a new employee - 28 years old - who has never mailed a letter and did not know how to write a check or that checks needed to be signed before sending. It just isn’t taught in their world.

[gaijin]

Run up the beach at Normandy: Possible
Launching to & walking on moon: Possible
Buying stamps: Impossible

[caww]

They’d rather do protests in the streets so they can meet up and obtain their moment in the news cycle.

[rjsimmon]

I can see where this is leading. Democrats will now want all absentee ballots to be postage paid by the taxpayer.

[Red Badger]

My son-in-law’s neice, 20+ years old, cannot tell time on an analog clock......................

[G Larry]

A what?

[Spok]

Good. It’s a de facto literacy test. If you’re too stupid to figure out how to mail a letter, you’re too stupid to vote.

[WKUHilltopper]

Why here comes a new socialist chant “Let us just write on the enveloped we’re dumba$$ed college students, no stamp required”.

[SauronOfMordor]

My supermarket sells stamps at the customer service counter.

[WMarshal]

“My son-in-law’s neice, 20+ years old, cannot tell time on an analog clock......”

Many Millennials cannot write or even read cursive.

[rdl6989]

They’re too stupid to go to the post office or the grocery store?

[EinNYC]

My son-in-law’s neice, 20+ years old, cannot tell time on an analog clock......................

Nothing new there. I had entire classes of biology students who would ask me the time, with a giant classroom clock right there on the wall. Puzzled, I'd state the obvious--there's a big clock right there on the wall, why are you asking me the time? Inevitably, they'd say, "I don't know how to tell time with that kind of clock!" Sorry, but that's pathetic. Teachers used to teach analog clock reading in kindergarten. I guess they can't spare the time from those LGBTXYZ story telling sessions by trannies now, eh?

[Red Badger]

All minorities......................

[alancarp]

I suggested to my youngest daughter a couple of weeks ago that in another 20 years, kids won’t even know how to write... they will only know how to type words.

[dhs12345]

A clown in clown makeup? Wheres her big shoes and red nose?

[Timocrat]

I have a niece who will graduate with a masters in education in eighteen months time who has never read a complete work of fiction or biography in her entire life - and sees nothing wrong with that.

[metmom]

This sounds silly, but we have a new employee - 28 years old - who has never mailed a letter and did not know how to write a check or that checks needed to be signed before sending. It just isn’t taught in their world.

Check? What's a check?

[erkelly]

A dial phone is a foreign concept also.