Are you lazy? Uninterested? Don't know how? Or just don’t want to?

Voting is one of the many rights we as Americans have in this country. We're extremely lucky to be in a country that allows us to chose who we want to represent us. In many other countries and regions, such as the Middle East, they have a dictator who has no interest in hearing the complaints or comments from the people.

To the one who doesn't want to vote, why?

Alice Paul, a woman who fought for the women's right to vote, was force fed and jailed among other women who followed in her footsteps for years. She fought with everything she had for a simple right, the right to write a check mark on a ballot, the right for her as well as other women's voices to be heard. After everything she went through to ensure our right to vote now, would it be so much to maybe vote? Would it be so much to make all her efforts for something?

You can complain about the leaders of our country or what you don't like about the government but if you don’t vote what do you have to complain about? You didn't put your voice in. You didn't have any say in who would represent us. My high school history teacher would always say the only way you can complain about the outcome or what's going on with the government is if you participated in the vote.

You may not think you make a difference or your one vote wouldn't matter but if you’re a teenager or a young adult, we're the majority. But the majority who's been making the government decisions are the elderly. We're the future of the country. Do you really want people aged 60+ to be making the decisions that will be impacting you?

I'm not going to say you have to vote because you don't. You have the right to not vote—this is America—but why wouldn't you? After everything people have gone through to make it so we can live somewhere where we can have the right to choose, why wouldn't you spend the five minutes on one day to place a checkmark on a piece of paper?