If you’re active in social media, blogging, twittering, meeting and connecting with people across the world and across your workplace in new and exciting ways, you’re probably used to making your voice heard. You’re probably getting used to the fact that real work gets done in these back channels. But tomorrow in the US is about the front channels.
I’m not here to endorse a candidate. I’m here to endorse the process of voting. Regardless of how you feel about the presidential race, there are real issues being decided in hundreds of local elections across the country tomorrow. Sometimes issues like these are decided by a handful of votes. Staying home because you’re apathetic about the president, or because you know your vote won’t change your state’s “color” on the CNN map Tuesday night is a mistake.
Even if “your” candidate or cause loses tomorrow, you’ve taken a step to being more involved. You’re not just watching from the sidelines, you’re participating. There’s a reason we’re all active here online — and those reasons apply just as much in person as they do here with the ones and zeroes.
So come in to work an hour late, leave an hour early, whatever, and get to the polls.
