Vote It Up
by Tony Chavira
First of all, you should vote today. Now here's my story:
I went out to vote at the precinct I always go to and my name wasn't on the list, despite the fact that the community center is literally behind my house in Monterey Park. Clearly my "Report To” information must’ve been wrong, so they sent me to another community center in Monterey Park which didn't have my name on the list either. So those guys sent me to this Chinese church where, of course, I wasn't on the list there either. Was it possible I had ceased to exist? I didn't remember wishing for it last night while standing over a bridge...) Anyway, mMaybe it was the fact that we were in a church but the friendly volunteer at this location decided to give me a provisional ballot. Finally after getting my last name wrong a few times and misaligning the provisional list number to the number he wrote on my provisional envelope, things were right as rain.
All the while, the mean age of the volunteers I interacted with must've been 70, and the mean age of voters I interacted with at each precinct must've been 10 years older than that. I was the clear outlier in literally every case. Why was that though? Does our generation not enjoy voting? Or is it that when people get older they feel compelled to vote in public, to show that they’ve still got gumption? Maybe I'm just being melodramatic... everyone but me probably just votes my mail or with some new internet site I'll hear about months after it's "popular."
I’d like your thoughts, but more than that I’d like you to go out and vote already. Your boss is required to give you time off to vote today, to take it and your lunch hour at the same time. Might as well. Unless you don’t mind a world singularly controlled by elderly humoids.
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