The Election

Elections always seem like a huge deal but especially this year it seemed bigger than ever! It was so frustrating to be only months away from voting age! Luckily however, I volunteered as an election judge which was one of the greatest experiences on so many fronts. Getting to experience first hand how the voting works was very interesting! After sitting and helping people get set up to vote the polls finally closed... the machines did all the counting with the exception of the write in candidates which we had to go through and look for and mark down by hand. While going through the ballots looking for the write ins I was attempting to get a sense of how many people voted McCain VS. Obama...It seemed soo even at my polling place it was staggering to get home and see how land-slideish it was. As interesting as the system and the people coming to vote were....the most interesting thing was the other election judges who had worked many elections. Hearing them compare this election to previous they were very excited about the new-found voter excitement that they hadn't seen previously. They were also so adamit that we were the future and we should try to change how campaigns work because "people would actually listen to us." They wanted us to know they thought that campaigns should be shorter and election day should be a national holiday. I thought it was interesting that they thought people would only listen to us, this seems to be the disconnect, so much more would get done if we all tried to make a difference. Why don't people see that? Its not your age, sex, or race that matters its what you do with your life.