My daughter went back to college yesterday after casting her vote. Last night, she was checking the election returns with her roommates and felt confident and proud about her vote. All her candidates won here in New York. Not a bad first voting experience.
This will not always be the case. In the future, she will taste the bitter defeat we, her parents felt six years ago, and even more depressingly two years ago. I hope that when this happens, she will not give up on voting. And I hope that she will not give up on making her voice heard because " it does not make a difference anyway".
Making sure that our daughter was registered to vote was as important to me and to my husband as having her get her driver's licence and her own bank account. Its all part of her education.
Having done it once, I hope she will continue doing it every year, even when her candidates have only a slim chance of winning. Because if she does not make the choices herself, someone else will make them for her.
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