Yesterday was Maryland's Voting Day for the presidential primaries. Our state's primary was held a little late for my liking because the candidate I had been following is no longer running. Still, I consider it a privilege to vote, so I drove to the polls with Erika and Daniel, who are both voting for the first time in the presidential election.
Erika worked at the polls two years ago while a student at Towson University, but missed voting in the presidential elections four years ago by two weeks. Daniel, on the other hand, is able to take advantage of a new law this year in Maryland allowing those who would be 18 for the elections to vote at 17 in the Primaries.
Our third first-time voter, James, may be able to vote absentee in November while in California on his mission. Kara, our fourth voter, has already voted in a national election by absentee vote from college. Dave also took time from work to vote, so this household has almost doubled its' voter turnout this election.
We went online beforehand to read about those running for the county School Board, and we had a good discussion about the backgrounds and ideas of the candidates. It appealed to Erika and Daniel to vote for someone they felt represented them--Di Zou, a 19-year old college student--who also ran last time, at age 17. (I'm not sure he was old enough to vote for himself that time!)
4 comments:
Wow! We didn't even go. After all the hullabaloo, there just wasn't anyone I wanted to vote for. But way to be patriotic!!
Wow that is a house full of voters there. Good for you guys getting out there.
Chris and I took all the kids and voted. Alec even pushed the buttons for Chris. It was fun teaching the kids why we vote for who we do and nice that they're young enough to think we're right.
way to go!!!!
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