Your Vote Counts

Today is E-Day - Election Day.   Contrary to what you have been told and the rumors on the street, your vote does count.   If your vote was not important, others would not be trying to keep you from exercising your rights.   Think about it!   If YOU were not important, there were no rumors that you had to have voter id which is not true.    If YOU were not important, institutions would not try to take away your right to vote.   If YOU were not important, these candidates would not have spent billions of dollars for your vote.   YOU are essential to the democratic process.   YOU determine who will lead our country, and our election commissions and will become our judges.   The decisions made be these individuals determine what our national and local governments' values are and will have an lasting effect on  you, your children and grandchildren. We not only have an obligation to exercise our right to vote, but to encourage others to exercise their rights and do what we can to ensure that the election process is fair, honest and inclusive.   So at the end of the day, YOU matter.  You are important. YOU mean Democracy.