Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Voting is Your Right & Responsibility

      Early voting began yesterday here in Utah. There are several selected locations around the State where one can vote early and avoid waiting in line of November 5th.

Is your vote heard, does it really count?

      How many times have we heard these sentiments? Yet there are those who have fought for the right to vote, given their lives for the rights of others to vote in their countries, and whose sole focus is on protecting that right for future generations in America. Can we really be so disengaged as to ignore our small part in Democracy and fail to participate in an action that is at the core of what our Country stands for?

We have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton 

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
Franklin D. Roosevelt 

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” ― Abraham Lincoln

      I cherish this right and power. I will not hand my vote over to others because I failed to participate. No matter how small the ballot, no matter how seemingly insignificant the issues, my vote counts and I will voice it! 

      Take a bus, ask for a ride, carpool, walk, do an absentee ballot, do what ever it takes, but VOTE. 

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