Our right to vote is a sacred privilege, earned through the blood and ingenuity of our founding fathers and preserved by subsequent generations of war veterans. It is a right that so many elsewhere in the world, to their grave detriment, do not enjoy.
Yet, sadly, so many of us fail to exercise it.
In the 2004 election fully 36 percent of eligible Americans failed to vote, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Every citizen who is eligible should vote. Plain and simple. If you don't like the major-party candidates, vote for someone else. Even yourself. But vote. And urge your friends and family to do the same. We owe it to one another and all who have come before us that built our country and made it great.
For a list of voter-registration deadlines for the Nov. 4 election, click here. If you're not registered, I urge you to do so. It's easy.
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