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Stop thinking about voting as a right

There’s a more powerful way to look at it

It was the seventh day of the eleventh month of the first year of the new millenium, and I had failed to vote.

I mean, it wasn’t that big of a deal. I wasn’t trying to make a statement, or feeling particularly disillusioned or disenfranchised. Truth is, I just couldn’t be bothered.