Check This: The View's Sherri Shepherd Has Never Voted

January 29, 2008

Sherri Shepherd announced on The View this morning that she's never voted. At 41 years of age, Sherri turned 18 in 1985. She claims that she's missed every single election because she didn't know what the dates were. (Sherri? First Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Always.) Adding to the abomination that she's a US citizen turning her back on her duty as an American, it seems like Sherri is also scorning all of those women who are still without the right to vote. In Sherri's lifetime, 18 countries have granted women's suffrage, including Switzerland in 1971 and Zimbabwe in 1978. It seems that this isn't a right women should take lightly.

Do you live somewhere that recently gave women the vote? Which is worse: that she hasn't voted, or that she's taking for granted the fact she can?

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Tari007 5 years 14 weeks

Can we please remove this moron from the show? She doesn't deserve to be sitting at that table discussing anything. She is embarrassing!

clarient 5 years 14 weeks

I could have SWORN I saw the post read 1945 instead of 1985!! Throw my whole comment out the window!!! Ooops!!! I really have no idea who she is... I just thought the situation was different than it actually was!

clarient 5 years 14 weeks

I could have SWORN I saw the post read 1945 instead of 1985!! Throw my whole comment out the window!!!Ooops!!! I really have no idea who she is... I just thought the situation was different than it actually was!

peepshow 5 years 15 weeks

Ha. Stupid people shouldn't vote? And who gets to decide who's stupid and who's smart enough to vote? That's absolutely ridiculous.

peepshow 5 years 15 weeks

Ha. Stupid people shouldn't vote?And who gets to decide who's stupid and who's smart enough to vote? That's absolutely ridiculous.

Linz81 5 years 15 weeks

I don't vote and probably would only plan to in the event that I buy a home and feel strongly about a local issues.As of now, I rent, so my local views don't matter much, and I feel that presidential elections are a complete joke.

Linz81 5 years 15 weeks

I don't vote and probably would only plan to in the event that I buy a home and feel strongly about a local issues. As of now, I rent, so my local views don't matter much, and I feel that presidential elections are a complete joke.

freegracefrom 5 years 15 weeks

Everyone has the right to vote. I personally think that if you choose to exercise that right, then you are obligated to educate yourself as much as you can about your choices. There is no excuse for ignorance - the candidates are everywhere during election time.... in newspapers, on the internet, on television, in your hometown rallies. If you don't care or you just don't want to take the time to get informed, then that's fine... don't vote. To me, making an uninformed vote is far worse than not voting at all. If you make the basis of your decision on how the person's name is spelled, their gender, or on something as equally ridiculous, then you deserve to have your life and your country destroyed by your bad choice of a leader.

miriama59 5 years 15 weeks

Well, part of being an American is choice. No one said she had to vote. If she doesn't feel passionately about who our president is or women's rights then she doesn't need to vote. I don't understand it but it is her right.

The City Girl 5 years 15 weeks

She said nothing came before Christians?? As a history major that makes me crazy! What a stupid woman, and blaming her ignorance on raising a child! GAG!!! on so many levels.Citizen Sugar posted a great link to dontvote.org that everyone should take. I think it makes a good point but that it should be personalized by state with actually important issues on it (this one just asks you to identify people and their titles). But it's fun to do at work nonetheless!

The City Girl 5 years 15 weeks

She said nothing came before Christians?? As a history major that makes me crazy! What a stupid woman, and blaming her ignorance on raising a child! GAG!!! on so many levels. Citizen Sugar posted a great link to dontvote.org that everyone should take. I think it makes a good point but that it should be personalized by state with actually important issues on it (this one just asks you to identify people and their titles). But it's fun to do at work nonetheless!

lovelystate 5 years 15 weeks

I agree with nancita and yaliyah. Everyone should have a right to vote irregardless of education, income, race, etc...what we should strive towards is insuring that voters are properly informed.

longhorn_sugar 5 years 15 weeks

good for her for being honest about it!

karisaamy 5 years 15 weeks

It drives me crazy when people voice their opinion on political issues but don't actually vote.

pinkcotton 5 years 15 weeks

The second comment, Foxie, you're right!!! We don't want ignorant votes. Especially this election.

pinkcotton 5 years 15 weeks

The second comment, Foxie, you're right!!!We don't want ignorant votes.Especially this election.

kristyrk 5 years 15 weeks

Although I am not surprised – since Sherri sits there practically silent throughout the entire show, with no opinions – I think its a poor choice for Babara on a show where they discuss hot button topics. And call me crazy, but I kind of agree with Foxy up there - if shes not going to make an intelligent and informed choice on who to vote for, then I don't want her to vote. It's just sad that some Americans are either too scared, lazy, or "busy" not to care who we elect as our president.

kristyrk 5 years 15 weeks

bluesuze 5 years 15 weeks

Baba Wawa screwed up. She should have picked Kathy Griffin to fill the spot instead of Sherri.

LaLa0428 5 years 15 weeks

I'm really bothered by the fact that she has never voted. As someone mentioned above, the right to vote for African-Americans was paid for in blood by many people (James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and all the people who participated in the Freedom Summer 64 event). And Sherri can't be bothered to register and educate herself on the issues. Why is she on a show called the view, she clearly doesn't have one.

brittany8 5 years 15 weeks

sherri shepherd also has said that "nothing came before christians" (doesn't she understand BC and AD!? i know those terms aren't used anymore, but come on!) and that the ancient greeks fed christians to lions. she seems like a nice person, but there just isn't too much going on up in her head.

alllacedup 5 years 15 weeks

It's her choice not to vote. If she's choosing to not vote because she "doesn't know the dates" and can't be bothered to figure them out, fine. But don't complain about politics if you don't even bother yourself to change them.

sweetrae80 5 years 15 weeks

It's her choice if she does not want to vote. She doesn't seem like she could make a smart decision anyway. What I want to know is how she has a great, well-paying job on a national TV show while the rest of us are working our butts off to pay the bills. Once again, the mainstream media and Hollywood are rewarding idiocy. I have hated her ever since she made the comment about the world being flat. What an a**hole!

Pirate33 5 years 15 weeks

yaliyah - I couldn't have said it better myself. One of the proudest days of my life was the the first time I voted.

CitizenSugar 5 years 15 weeks

mikestyle, "As I understand it, The View is where we collect our dumbest Americans for public ridicule." Maybe that should be the show's new tagline? It has a nice ring to it... ;)

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