I went to vote before work. I’d heard on the radio it would be a low turnout because it was a primary and on a Thursday, which is unusual. But one hotly contested election brought out the troops.
As I left the polls, I was thinking how some folks complain their vote won’t matter or nothing will change. But I think voting is important even if it isn’t perfect.
At this very moment, people around the world are literally dying for the right to vote. And if they do get the franchise, they line up for hours time and time again even if they know it’s not perfect — too many candidates, fraud attempts, threats of violence, the wrong person winning.
A few years ago I was reading stats about Dubai, just a list of facts like population, natural resources, weather, religion. I came to the column “franchise,” and it said “none.”
None? I never really thought about it although I knew the country was a monarchy.
Franchise: none. Wow.
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I voted too. And you are right. Thanks for reminding us.
Thanks for voting.
Judith! I’ve been thinking of you recently! It’s Francesca writing (Asakiyume is my (main) online moniker.)
Do check out Judith’s blog, judithaross.com. She has lovely stories and photos.
I did–her blog is beautiful! I will have to keep visiting.
I voted. Thanks for reminding us how lucky we are to have that privilege.
The walk the ninja girl and I took this morning was to vote. It took us quite a long time to walk to our polling place and back (I could only afford the time because I had no deadlines today), and I said, as we were walking: this is why in many countries, voting days are holidays.
Whoa Dubai.
Taking a long walk to and from must really help you think about voting and what it means.
It absolutely did. I was thinking about all sorts of things relating to voting and politics in this country (and in general).