Vote Tomorrow – It’s Your Right!

Monday, November 3, 2014

Good morning,

Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 4th is Election Day.  If you are trying to decide if you are going to go to the polls to vote or not, here are 25 reasons why you SHOULD.

• Democracy means “people-force.” When you don’t vote, ‘the People’ create a power vacuum.
• People power is the only thing that can keep tyranny at bay, though it is no assurance.
• As John Locke asserted, people are by nature, free. Voting is the natural right of the self-governed.
• To honor Founding Father Benjamin Franklin’s challenge to us all. Following the close of the Constitutional Convention, he was asked “what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” He answered,  “A Republic, if you can keep it!”
• If you don’t use your right to vote, you may lose your right to vote.
• “Without the vote of a free man, I am but a slave without power to make decisions.” – Gary Olson
• A vote in honor of Captain Nathan Hale, who said for you, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
• Voting can make you Superwoman for one day, fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way!
• 65,000 people died or were wounded in the American Revolution, the start of what has been a great experiment in democracy.
• “Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness” – Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Philadelphia, Pa.
• So you can complain with integrity.
• “Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the people and burn their behinds, then they will have to sit on their blisters.” – Abraham Lincoln
• Women suffragettes were jailed and force fed for 3 weeks for the right to vote.
• The 40 lives for freedom, lost courageously in the fight for minority rights to vote, enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Will you give a vote for them?
• “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.” – Lyndon Johnson
•  In honored memory of JFK and Robert Kennedy and their roles in the Civil Rights Movement.
• To set a good example for younger generations.
• Because you’re 18. You can vote! Youth votes declined in 2012 to just over 40 percent of eligible voters.
• “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote!”
• “You can vote for yourself, or someone you really like.”  – Dillon McHugh
• “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” – Abraham Lincoln
• We build our nation with votes.
• “This City Nation is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” -Plato
• If you don’t vote for your interests, who will?
•  “A wise man will not leave what is right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.” – Thoreau
•  Because you have researched your candidates and can make an informed vote.
• “Apathy gets you the government we have today.” -Gil Sery
• “If people won’t vote for good candidates…because we think they won’t win, why will good candidates continue to run?” -Eric and Rachel Jones
• Less than 50 percent of eligible voters cast a vote in mid-term elections.