Vote, Maricopa. It’s your right.

Tuesday is “Vote Day” in Maricopa. I hope – no I’m praying – that we have a large turnout for this important election. If you don’t vote, it is the same as saying you don’t care about Maricopa.

No one should brush this great honor off so quickly. Sure, you have to head down to a voting place, unless you voted by absentee ballot, to make your marks, which takes some time out of your day and may cost you a few bucks in gas, but whether you know it or not these are very small prices to pay for the right to vote.

Don’t take a “whatever, who cares” kind of attitude about your right to vote. In some countries people are literally dying to be able to cast a ballot to make a difference.

Something that is really annoying to those of us who do vote is the endless chatter on the bad political policy of current government spewing from the mouths of eligible voters who never bothered to cast a ballot. If this be the case, then where do you get the idea that you can complain when something happens that you don’t like? Don’t give me, “It’s my right” foolishness!

If you don’t vote you really have no right complaining about anything the government does, unless of course, you are like several who like complaining and have it down to a fine art. Want the right to complain when government makes boneheaded decisions? Then get yourself out and vote!

You should vote because you can. If you don’t you could one day find that you can’t. It can and has happened. Enough said.

Jim Hull is a resident of the community of Province in Maricopa.

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