The US election has passed and Barack Obama has been elected president for a second term. Instrumental in this process were hundreds of people who staffed the polls at every precinct, passing out information about voting procedure, manning catalogs of registered voters, and preventing the technically complex and extremely heavy electronic voting machines from falling down.
Yesterday I got to volunteer to help as part of a program called the Future Vote Initiative, getting "future voters" (otherwise known as kids) to volunteer to help for three-hour shifts at local precincts. I was instructed to get to the polls at six o’clock in the morning, meaning that I had to get up around 5:30--which as a homeschooler is a very unusual event for me. While I had to get up early, it was worth every minute of missed sleep. I did everything I could to help, running Voter Access Cards back and forth, handing out "I Voted" stickers, or doing whatever was needed.
I had so much fun in the morning that I came back to help put everything away as soon as my fencing class had finished in the evening. By the time I got home, it was just a few minutes before the outcome of the election was announced.
During the next presidential election four years from now, I hope to become a full election judge!
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