[Dashing Dasher]

I've voted in every single election since I turned 18. My father was born in a communist country - I believe it isn't just my right - but my duty to vote.

I live in a state that has dozens of propositions we need to vote on each year. I spend some quality time researching each of these and then make a cheat sheet to use when I get to the polling place.

One year, I had just had surgery - and wasn't yet "up and around" but called a friend who drove me over so that I could vote.

It's that important to me.

[JohnCliftn]

Like you, I have voted, too, even little local special elections, since 1972; and made a point of learning about the elections. In local elections, I meet the candidates.

Voting is indeed a serious civic duty.

Yet, it is wryly humorous to me that this is allowed of the totally uninformed and the deliberately self-deceived.