No vote, no voice

By: Orange News Staff | Orange County Review
Published: November 02, 2011

What if we couldn't vote?
What if we had no input in our government and our officials made decisions without answering to anyone but themselves?
What if we lacked the power to change our leaders? What if our officials were chosen based on lineage, military strength or wealth and we could only sit idly by, muted and unable to impact our future?
No vote? No voice.
With no vote, we'd have no debate, no discourse and no representation. We wouldn't be a model of representative government. We wouldn't be the nation others emulate. We wouldn't be the greatest nation on Earth.
Our vote is our voice. It's our fundamental right as American citizens and guarantees our place in selecting our leadership and subsequently the direction our nation or community moves.
We all have one vote. No more, no less. One citizen’s vote counts the same as the poorest American and the same as the richest. It's no more or less valuable than any other vote.
In a nation of diversity and political division, a vote puts us all on common ground, guaranteeing we are all at once equal.
Our right to vote is what distinguishes us–not any physical, personal or philosophical characteristic.
When we push those buttons on our touch-screen voting machines, we are not Republican or Democrat, black or white, woman or man, Protestant or Catholic. We are Americans. Our vote guarantees that. What a great freedom that is.
Vote Nov. 8.

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