Use your VOTER voice

Your vote is your voice

When my kids were small we talked about using our "indoor voice" and our "outdoor voice" when trying to teach courteous and practical volume control. But there's only one appropriate volume to use when voting. It's your affirmative voice, to tell the world what you want and how it should comport itself.

So do that, please!

IMAGES: Many thanks to WTXL Channel 27 for the "Your Voice - Your Vote" graphic; to Imagur and vinrussell for the "Powerful Weapon" graphic; and to the Kansas ACLU for the "Power Vote" image.

Your Vote is your Power

Make your voice heard.

IMAGES: Many thanks to The Riverside Church, for the illustration for its article "Lift Every Voice and Vote," to The Bull Elephant, for the graphic on reasons why one should vote; and to EdTechSandyK, for the quote from John F. Kennedy.

Does your state allow advance voting?

Big election. Don't miss out.

Dear Citizens of the USA:

Please plan to vote.
Please learn about the issues, the candidates, the propositions and ballot measures.
If you haven't started educating yourself, start now!
Once you've gained a good background, put it to work.
Make your voice heard.
VOTE.

IMAGES: Many thanks to the On the Road to Crunchy Mama blog for the "Educate yourself. Now Vote." button design, and to NPR and Smartboy 10/Getty Images for the multicolored voting hands illustration.

Taking responsibility

The Artdog Quote of the Week

There is a certain amount of "ownership" of problems that is needed, when a person takes on this important business of being an informed citizen and voter (I hope you are!).

Weighty decisions come into our hands, and with our single votes each of us drops another pebble into one or another bucket that may just tip the balance for all. But this means we must make the choice to pay attention, to study the questions our society faces, and to do the diligence that will help us separate charlatans from true prophets.

IMAGE: Many thanks to AZ Quotes, for this provocative thought from Grace Lee Boggs.