It's easy to let college get in the way of a lot things. You get side tracked and don't call mom as much as you should, you push off doing homework, and even sometimes forget about voting. It's easy to not think about it especially when you are out-of-state like I am.

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However, your civic duty to vote for a representative whether it be in the House of Representatives, Governor, or State Superintendent of Education doesn't wait for you to finish your latest Netflix binge.

It's also very easy to get overwhelmed with what will be on your ballot when November 6th comes around. This year is my first year voting and I was quite unsure of what to expect.

It's my first year voting, I'm 800 miles away, and it's a midterm. This is very overwhelming.

However, I haven't left room for an excuse to not vote like I know many of my fellow peers will. It doesn't matter if you live in the state you are attending school, live out-of-state, or even just down the road from where you should be casting your educated vote in the coming weeks.

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Many states have made the process of registering available online or even accessible at the polls. Depending on where you are living, you might be able to register up to a week before the election online, by mail, or the day of at the polls. There is no reason to have a low voter turn out rate with the access to services like Uber or Lyft that are giving free or discounted rides to go and vote this year in hopes that it encourages more people to physically go and vote.

So takes this time to ask yourself, are you registered? Are you informed? How are you going to be voting this year?

There are no excuses to not be active politically. If you don't like what is happening politically and you don't go vote, you have no room to complain. Do yourself a favor, be registered, be educated, and most importantly be proactive and go vote.

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