A Voter's Responsibility

Following up on our heated class discussion regarding the current voting system - I honestly believe that the system needs to be reviewed in order to meet the growing demand for voting machines. As our population continues to grow, more machines need to be delivered to meet the growing demand; however, voters still need to take responsibility of finding out how to vote.

The film that we watched tonight showed several angry would-be voters. These would-be voters were upset because they were unable to vote due to a variety of self-inflicted reasons, such as: "I asked someone to save my spot in line and left the building and the polling officials wouldn't let me back in because it was after 7:30." Well, duh, who is to say how many people would use that excuse as a reason to go inside to vote after the time deadline? Another reason was due to someone being in the wrong line. I don't care how un-organized the polling location was that person could have still asked anyone else in that line what district they were in. There is no excuse for voters not to be educated on where and when they need to vote.

Saying that, people should not trust anyone or anything other then non-partisan political educational groups, such as the League of Women Voters. This organization has helped educate voters about the election cycle. However, as I have discovered, many community members do not utilize their free services. Shame on them and shame on them for not being informed voters. Men and women have died for our freedom to vote - the least people can do in return is spend a half hour reading about how to vote in their district.