I have voted in every election since I have been eligible to vote. I overnight mailed an absentee ballot from Israel when I was studying there, and that was an odd year election. I did not always get the nifty stickers, because for the majority of my voting existence I have voted absentee, and this is the first year that Colorado has included stickers with their absentee ballots. When I was a small child I would ask my mom for her "I voted" sticker and she would never give it to me. She would say that I hadn't voted, and when I had voted I could have a sticker. She also would not let me pull the lever on the old voting machines. My mom is a purist.
Despite my jaded feelings towards our fair democracy, I have voted, and I will vote, every year until I die.
Because I can't bitch about it if I don't vote.
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