While registering voters at a table in Holmes Student Center, I hear a lot of people asking quite a few questions about voting. Those questions include: “Why should I register and vote?” and “Why do I care who wins on Nov. 8?”

I’d like to add a few questions to the ones already mentioned. Why should students use their voices to help shape the future of our great nation? That future is yet to be molded depends largely upon the actions of the young.

Why should we demonstrate our freedom? These freedoms which we take for granted were gained through bloodshed. There are people dying every day for an ideal named democracy. That ideal can be symbolized by the right to cast a vote for whom ever you believe in.

The answers to these questions all come down to one explaination. The answer is—because you can and others can not. You have and others have not. Voting is a right that I don’t want to lose, and it is a right that you don’t want to lose. Take advantage of it!

Register to vote in the Student Association office on the second floor of the Holmes Student Center. The deadline is Oct. 3.

Thomas Elkins

SA Voter Registration Chairperson