The other day I was able to finish up the last few hours of my Civic Engagement Project. For the second half I helped people register to vote. It actually was an opportunity that fell into my lap. My apartment complex had an October Fest pool party. When I got there, there were people at one table with both McCain and Obama posters. I walked over and they asked if I was registered to vote. I said yes and then asked if they needed an extra hand. They said they would love one so I helped out.
It was very interesting because even though there were people from both campaigns there, they were not interested in getting people to support their campaign but instead they were just interested in getting people registered. My apartment complex wanted to make sure that people were involved and make it easy for people to register to vote. With this being a whole community gathering with quite a great turn out, we were able to sign up over 20 people!
I thought it was very cool that my apartment complex would want to have the involvement and take the opportunity to help out its residence with making it easy to register. I would never have guessed they would EVER help out their residence! Over all I was very excited to be part of the registration process.
Between both of my Civic Engagement Projects I have been able to not only learn about the voting process and history but play an active role in the whole process. Before this year I was not interested in politics at all. Ever since I took the C-SPAN in the Cable Center I got the political bug. And learning more and more about politics today has helped me become much more informed. This project has been great for me. I am looking forward to working at the Molly Brown House in January and hopefully in 4 years be able to help more people register to vote.
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I would agree that one of the most important parts of being civically engaged is to be registered to vote--regardless of what party you identify with or which candidate you ultimately choose to support. It sounds like you had a great non-partisan moment there in your apartement complex.
Also, don't forget: we have elections every year, and often the non-presidential elections generate a much smaller turnout. But you could argue these are as important to be invovled, too. So don't forget to vote in 2009, 2010, or any of the years following ...
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