It says "I Voted".

Today, probably about an hour ago, I went with my dad and his girlfriend to the garage of a concerned citizen and voted. Normally elections are not held in early October, of course, but with this freak governor-recall thing going on, they are. I had already gone over the sample ballots and considered the issues (not that there were many), and I went in, punched the little holes in my ballot, turned it in, and left. It was the coolest thing. It felt like I was exerting influence, even though statistically I really wasn't.

The coolest thing about this is that this is my first time voting. I turned eighteen shortly after the election this March, so I wasn't elligible to vote then. I think it's profoundly cool that my first time voting, the first time I have ever formally engaged myself in the political process, is during an election that is also the first of its sort (if I am not mistaken). I don't think it's all that unreasonable to think that this election will go down in the history books, even if it only garners a sentence or two. I think that's just the neatest thing.

At any rate, I intend to keep voting, every March and every November, and I think everyone else should too. The kind of voter turnout we're getting here, we should get every election, I think. People should care more.

I VOTED!

-Eric "YEAH!" Sleator