Election Day Advice
Today is election day, with polls open until 8 o’clock tonight. I’ll be voting in person as always, shortly before dinner tonight.
And while today’s election doesn’t have the same number of contested races that next year’s state and congressional elections will, it’s still quite worthy of your time.
For example, those elected today will have the most direct impact on your lives. They have impact on your schools and therefore how the next generation of citizens are educated and how your property taxes are spent. If you live within a city or town, those folks have impact on the day to day rules in your town, steer economic development, and set the tone publicly for the place you live.
That’s pretty important any time, but let me suggest that it’s absolutely vital for everyone listening to this to vote today, even if you don’t think the races are all that exciting. It’s because every one of us needs to send a signal to those trying to take over elections and our republic…we need to show a broad force of interested citizens exists, even if we all don’t agree on everything.
A record “off year” election turnout will be noticed by those who intend to “fundamentally transform” the country in a way we don’t want. And it may show just how many people are out there and ready to show up every time they have an election, or a town meeting, or anything else.
Typically, outside forces take over when they sense an opening. Stand up today, be counted, and show that we the people are most definitely paying attention. And it stops here, with the first chance many of us have had to vote since last year’s dubious national election.
