Vote... it does you good..

Yesterday was another voting day.. althought most forgot.

It is a double off year.  Not the every 2 years where you vote for some state congress person and etc…

Most of it is local. A few councilmen and women. Commissioners of fire departments, and such.

Our town is a small town.. roughly about 600 people here, and of course not all of them vote, as there are a good share of them are under 18.  And we do have a council and a mayor.  Even hired are city planners and engineers and lawyers to keep things straight for the town.

This year there would have been two of our council person up for election.. but one of which has decided to call it a day and not run again.. After all she has done about 10 years. So we have one long time council man and a newbie, who no one even knows.. But she will win and so will the long time one. He has about 20+.   I voted for him .. didn’t the girl because didn’t have a clue who she was.. but she will win.

How do I know.. because no one ran against either one of them.  So it is a matter of how many votes they got. Average is 30.  She will have a few less … because no one knows her but her friends.  See in our little town, we almost have to beg people to run and they will be there as long as they want to run.  No one wants the job.  And actually it is a pretty laid back town. So not much to really decide on.  Mostly of it is making sure you have the state regulations in effect. And maybe put in a grant or two to help keep things in the town.

We do have a lot of growth .. houses are being built yearly.

So our count could get to be a 1000 in a year or two.

But even with this time of elections.. I still like to go vote. Even with only one, I could have skipped, but it is a privilege to vote and I take it very seriously.  Oh, yea, there was four people running for two spots on the district fire department and I voted for two of those..

Like I said.. Voting is a privilege  don’t ever let someone take that away from you. and never take it for granted.