Mara Spooner was recently quoted in the Daily that “generally, people our age aren’t registered to vote because no one asks them.” This comment incensed me, especially with the number of students who drive on campus.

If you have a license, you’ve been asked to register to vote. I think there is an incorrect correlation being made that registered voters equals votes. If it took this much effort to “find students on campus, in classes and at their homes,” just to register them, where is the connection that they’ll actually go and vote? If you are too ignorant to register to vote, you are too ignorant to vote.

Concerned citizens will register to vote and actually go to the polls on Nov. 2 — surprisingly many without ever needing the New Voters Project. Apathetic citizens won’t. It really is as simple as that.

People who care about the governance of this country will know its governing processes. They will know to register, know when to vote and, ultimately, will cast their vote in this process. People who don’t won’t.

Go vote Nov. 2, which is, coincidentally, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November — the same as it has been since 1845 for presidential elections. Ignorance is never an excuse.

Carl Clark

Senior

Architecture