Why It's Important to Vote

Khalis O. Green English1101 Lavern Luster Why Voting Is Important In the United States Voting during the presidential election has always been an important factor. Many people simply don’t vote or don’t understand the importance and power they have by just simply voting for the candidate that best suites their needs. Voting is important because it exercises your right as an American citizen to express your issues and ideas. Voting also helps us decide who will lead our country. Many men and women who have served this country have given their lives just so that you can be able to vote. Voting is important because it’s not only a right but also a privilege. Voting lets you express your ideas and opinion on issues in our country. This allows you to learn were the candidate’s stand on certain issues in the world today. Voting is the most powerful way to express your ideas and opinions. If you didn’t vote you would never be able to argue your opinion on such things as abortion, gas prices, tax dollars, or more better paying jobs. Voting exercises your right as an American citizen to express your issues and opinions. The leaders of our country have always been chosen through the presidential election since the beginning of constitution and by laws. Voting helps decide who will run our nation for the next term. Without voting our country would be ran by monarchy or dictatorship. Voting to decide who will run our country for the next four years is more than important to our survival as a nation of strong free people. Voting makes the difference from being lead by someone we chose as the people than by someone who took charge without the peoples consent or by their bloodline. Many of the men and women who have served our country have given there lives so we, the people of today would be able to vote freely. More than a million people have died just so we can vote. Wars such ass WWI, WW2, Valley Forge, and the war in Iraq may not have been fought with the purpose of