Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way the could do this is by not voting. — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who vote and those who don't.
Vote.
It's your right.
It's your responsibility.
Not voting is not a form a protest, it's abdication.
Not registered? You can register to vote on Election Day (November 6, 2018) in:
Don't know where your polling place is? Find it here.
Don't know how to cast your vote? Take a minute, get a sample ballot from your area here, and figure it out.
Don't know why you should vote? Here are some of my reasons:
Please. I'm asking you nicely.
Vote.
It's your right.
It's your responsibility.
Not voting is not a form a protest, it's abdication.
Not registered? You can register to vote on Election Day (November 6, 2018) in:
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- DC
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Maine
- Minnesota
- Montana
- Now Hampshire
- Utah
- Vermont
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
Don't know where your polling place is? Find it here.
Don't know how to cast your vote? Take a minute, get a sample ballot from your area here, and figure it out.
Don't know why you should vote? Here are some of my reasons:
- Vote because you are a citizen and it's your privilege and responsibility.
- Vote so you have a say in how things run and who we will be as a country.
- Vote so you can complain. That's right, put up or shut up.
- Vote because when you don't, someone else gets to tell you how things will run.
- Vote because "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried…." So said Winston Churchill, who was paraphrasing some unknown pundit.
- Vote to keep this crazy, mixed up, flawed, fantastic experiment of a country from losing the bet that it wouldn't work.
Vote because I said so.
Please. I'm asking you nicely.
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