Should I vote? Maybe I'll vote. Ok, I'm going to vote. I CAN'T VOTE

We should've figured the trick. There always is one. When Muubarak announced the intent to change the constitution, the time had passed to register to vote. They did announce however that anyone witha new ID card and born before 1986 would be automatically added to the voting lists and all you had to do was go pick your voting card up. Simple as that? This is Egypt so of course not. And that is exactly what I found out today. Actually its really simple, I ask the guy if this is the place to get my voting card. He asks when I was born, '85 so no problem. He asks was I born in Masr Al-kadimah, no but I live here and that is where my adress is. You have to be born here. "But I was born abroad", I say. "Come back in November to file an istimarah". I'm not the kind of person that gets angry and starts a scene. I should have asked him if I could get my voting card from the Egyptian councelate in LA, or maybe the Egyptian embessy in Washington. Heck to run for parliment you have to either live or work in the district where I want to run, so the same should go for voting. It should be by where you LIVE. I guess I should go and volenteer with a campaign or supervising the elections. Maybe that will help. REALLY?