Election day

[unixronin]

To be a citizen in a democracy, representative or direct, is not just a privilege.  It is also a responsibility, to keep that democracy on the right track and see that it does not go astray.  A citizen of that democracy who has the right to vote, who is happy to partake in the privileges, but who cannot be bothered to exercise the responsibility of using their vote, is only half a citizen.

I went out and voted today.  Did you?

(It was an optical-scan paper ballot, by the way.)

Comments

[fatcook.livejournal.com]

My Husband and I are going to vote tonight. This the duty my many-greats fought for me to have and I'm not going to let them down. Other than a couple of school bond elections, I haven't miss a vote since I registered when I was 18.
I turned my Husband into a voter simply by dragging him to the his local polling place when we were dating. Up till then he had registered but didn't vote.

VOTE!: It's just not for the few.