Voting with gratitude

Friday, November 4, 2022

We’re all going to vote next week, right? Voting is a privilege not enjoyed by all, so I hope you will exercise your rights with gratitude. In my many years of tinkering around the edges of politics, I’ve followed races at the state and national levels that were decided by voter turnout alone. I have also seen local seats won (and lost) by fewer than ten votes, and I have had the privilege of sitting in on a recount and watching a vote be overturned. Needless to say, I have a tough time when people tell me that they don’t think their vote matters. I have seen too many races decided by close margins to let that kind of talk go unchallenged.

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