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Election Day 2010
Nov. 2nd, 2010 08:38 amIf you are a voter in America with all the rights and privileges there in, I encourage you to take the time and vote today. I honestly don’t care if you are left, right or center. We have a responsibility to vote. Also don’t think that your vote doesn’t count. It does. And honestly, if you can vote and don’t because it is inconvenient or you just don’t feel like it, I feel you can’t complain about how the country and your local government is treating you.
My parents instilled the importance of being able to vote in me by both word and example. They would take me long to the polling place and I would watch them go through the process. In High School during my senior year I registered to vote and as soon as I was 18 and there was an election, I cast my first ballot. Since then I have either voted at my polling place or by absentee ballot with one exception that I still feel bad about. I didn’t register in time due to my own procrastination.
We have a process in place here that other people envy. We can express our political views in public rather than a whisper campaign. I hold freedom of speech very dearly.
Peter went to the Rally in DC and got to see a sea of people gather to show that, for the most part, we as a nation are rather centrists. And that gets lost in all the shouting between the left and the right. And who decided which party was left and which party was right? But that’s another rant.
Honestly I just want to get along with my neighbors and live my life the way that I want to and raise my child the way I think is right for her. And one of the things I want to teach her is the importance of voting. So today she will be going with us to the polls so she can watch us vote and we can pass on the tradition so when she can vote, she will.
I am grateful that I can vote even if the new system is a little screwy.
My parents instilled the importance of being able to vote in me by both word and example. They would take me long to the polling place and I would watch them go through the process. In High School during my senior year I registered to vote and as soon as I was 18 and there was an election, I cast my first ballot. Since then I have either voted at my polling place or by absentee ballot with one exception that I still feel bad about. I didn’t register in time due to my own procrastination.
We have a process in place here that other people envy. We can express our political views in public rather than a whisper campaign. I hold freedom of speech very dearly.
Peter went to the Rally in DC and got to see a sea of people gather to show that, for the most part, we as a nation are rather centrists. And that gets lost in all the shouting between the left and the right. And who decided which party was left and which party was right? But that’s another rant.
Honestly I just want to get along with my neighbors and live my life the way that I want to and raise my child the way I think is right for her. And one of the things I want to teach her is the importance of voting. So today she will be going with us to the polls so she can watch us vote and we can pass on the tradition so when she can vote, she will.
I am grateful that I can vote even if the new system is a little screwy.
